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ΤΗΕ 


ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES 


IN 


¥ 


GREEK AND ENGLisH 


PRINTED FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PLAY BY THE 
STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, TORONTO 


FEBRUARY, 1894 


Οὐ γάρ τι νῦν γε κἀχθές ἀλλ᾽ del wore | 
ald Ταῦτα (Ant, wv. 456-457) | 


Not of to-day nor yesterday is this 
‘But lives for ever 


BOSTON, U.S.A. 
PUBLISHED BY GINN & COMPANY 
1894 





ΝΟΤΕ. --- The translation is by \*rofessor ἢ, Ο, JEBB, of 
the University of Cambridge; it is printed 
(with the author’s sanction) from the plates 
made for the Vassar College edition of 1893, 
by the kind permission of Miss LEACH, Pro- 


fessor of Greek in Vassar College. 
The design on the covr is by E. WyLy 
Grier, A.R.C.A., Toronto. 


RIAC5 








Χαῖρε καὶ εἴν ᾿Αἴδεω θαλάμοισιν ἀοιδὲ Σοφόκλεις, 


τῆς δὲ πνοῆς τῆς wis ἡμὶν ὅπαζε πνοήν " 
καὶ τῆς σκαιοσύνῃς τῇς ἡμετερῇσι xapifer - 


τῇδε yap εὔκολος ἦσθ᾽ εὔκολος εἷς δ᾽ & ἐκεῖ, 








ANTIGONE. 


ISMENF. 


| No word of friends, Antigone, gladsome or pain- 


ful, hath come to me, since we two sisters were be- 
reft of brothe:s twain, killed in one day by a twofold 
blow; and since in this last night the Argive host 
hath fled, I know no more, whether my fortune be 
brighter, or more grievous. 

» ΑΝ. I knew it well, and therefore sought to bring 
thee beyond the gates of the court, that thou might- 
est hear alone. | 

Is. What is it? ’Tis sis that thou art brooding 


on some dark tidings. 

An. What, hath not Creon destined our bedihden, 
the one to honoured burial, the other to unburied 
shame? Eteocles, they say, with due observance 
of right and custom, he hath laid in the earth, for 
his honour among the dead below. But the hap- 
less corpse of Polyneices —as rumour saith, it hath 
been published to the town that none shall entomb 
him or mourn, but leave unwept, unsepulchred, a 
welcome store for the birds, as they espy him, to 
feast on at will. 

Such, ’tis said, is the edict that the good Creon 


hath set forth for thee and for me, — yes, for me, — 
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ood ANTIFONH. 


13MHNH. 
τί δ᾽, ὦ ταλαΐφρον, εἰ τάδ᾽ ἐν τούτοις,. ἐγὼ 
40 λύουσ᾽ ἂν ἣ ᾿φάπτουσα προσθείμην πλέον; 
ΑΝΤΙΓΌΝΗ, 
εἰ ξυμπονήσεις καὶ ξυνεργάσει σκόπει. 
ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 
ποῖόν τι κινδύνευμα ; ποῖ γνώμης ποτ᾽ εἶ; 
ANTITONH. 
εἰ τὸν νεκρὸν ξὺν τῇδε κουφιεῖς χερί. 
ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 
4 γὰρ νοεῖς θάπτειν σφ᾽, ἀπόρρητον πόλει; 
ANTIFONH. 
45 τὸν γοῦν ἐμὸν καὶ τὸν σόν, ἣν σὺ μὴ θέλῃς, 
ἀδελφόν" οὐ γὰρ δὴ προδοῦσ᾽ ἁλώσομαι. 
ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 
ὦ σχετλία, Κρέοντος ἀντειρηκότος ; 
ANTITONH. 
ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲν αὐτῷ τῶν ἐμῶν μ᾽ εἴργειν μέτα. 
ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 


οἶμοι" φρόνησον, ὦ κασιγνήτη, πατὴρ 


᾿δὺ ὡς νῷν ἀπεχθὴς δυσκλεής 7° ἀπώλετο, 


πρὸς αὐτοφώρων ἀμπλακημάτων διπλᾶς 
ὄψεις ἀράξας αὐτὸς αὐτουργῷ χερί" 
ἔπειτα μήτηρ καὶ γυνή, διπλοῦν ἔπος, 
πλεκταῖσιν ἀρτάναισι λωβᾶται βίον - 

δδ τρίτον δ᾽ ἀδελφὼ δύο μίαν Kal? ἡμέραν 








ANTIGONE. 


and is coming hither to proclaim it clearly to those 
who know it not; nor counts the matter light, but, 
who so disobeys in aught, his doom is death by 
stoning before all the folk. Thou knowest it now; 
and thou wilt soon show whether thou art nobly 
bred, or the base daughter of a noble line. 

Is. Poor sister, — and if things stand thus, what 
could I help to do or undo? 

An. Consider if thou wilt share the toil and the 
deed. 

Is. Inwhat venture? What can be thy meaning? 

An. Wilt thou aid this hand to lift the dead? 


Is. Thou wouldest bury him,— when ‘tis for- 
bidden to Thebes ? 
An. I will do my part,—and thine, if thou wilt 


not,—to a brother. False to him will I never be 
found. 


Is. Ah, over-bold! when Creon hath forbidden ? 

An. Nay, he hath no right to keep me from 
mine own. 

Is. Ah me! think, sister, how our father 
perished, amid hate and scorn, when sins bared 
by his own search had moved him to strike both 
eyes with self-blinding hand; then the mother wife, 
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ZOPOKAEOYS 


αὐτοκτονοῦντε, τῶ ταλαιπώρω, μόρον 
κοινὸν κατειργάσαντ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλοιν χεροῖν. 
νῦν δ᾽ αὖ μόνᾳ δὴ νὼ λελειμμένα σκόπει 
ὅσῳ κάκιστ᾽ ὀλούμεθ᾽, εἰ νόμον βίᾳ 

60 ψῆφον τυράννων ἣ κράτη παρέξιμεν. 
ἀλλ’ ἐννοεῖν χρὴ τοῦτο μὲν γυναῖχ᾽ ὅτι 
ἔφυμεν, ὡς πρὸς ἄνδρας οὐ μαχουμένα " 
ἔπειτα δ᾽ οὕνεκ᾽ ἀρχόμεσθ'᾽ ἐκ κρεισσόνων, 
καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἀκούειν κἄτι τῶνδ᾽ ἀλγίονα. 

65 ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν αἰτοῦσα τοὺς ὑπὸ χθονὸς 
ξύγγνοιαν ἴσχειν, ὡς βιάζομαι τάδε, 
τοῖς ἐν τέλει βεβῶσι πείσομαι" τὸ γὰρ 
περισσὰ πράσσειν οὐκ ἔχει νοῦν οὐδώνα. 


ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΉ. | 
οὔτ᾽ ἂν κελεύσαιμ᾽" ob ἄν, εἰ θέλοις ἔτι 


10 πράσσειν, ἐμοῦ γ᾽ ἂν ἡδέως δρῴης μέτα. 
ἀλλ᾽ ἴσθ᾽ ὁποία σοι δοκεῖ" κεῖνον δ᾽ ἐγὼ 
θάψω. καλόν μοι τοῦτο ποιούσῃ θανεῖ" 
φίλη μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ κείσομαι, φίλου μέτα, 
ὅσια πανουργήσασ᾽. ἐπεὶ πλείων χρόνος 

75 ὃν δεῖ μ᾽ ἀρέσκειν τοῖς κάτω τῶν ἐνθάδε" 
ἐκεῖ γὰρ αἰεὶ κείσομαι. σοὶ δ᾽ εἰ δοκεῖ, 
τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔἕντιμ᾽ ἀτιμάσασ᾽ ἔχε. 

I3MHNH. 
ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἄτιμα ποιοῦμαι, τὸ δὲ 
βίᾳ πολιτῶν δρᾶν ἔφυν ἀμήχανος. 
ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ. 
80 σὺ μὲν τάδ᾽ ἂν προὔχοι᾽" ἐγὼ δὲ δὴ τάφον 


χώσουσ᾽ ἀδελπῷ φιλτάτῳ πορεύσομαι. 





ANTIGONE. 


two names in one, with twisted noose did despite 
unto her life; and last, our two brothers in one 
day,—each shedding, hapless one, a kinsman’s 
blood, — wrought out with mutual hands their com- 
mon doom. And now we in turn—we two left all 
alone —think how we shall perish, more miserably 
than all the rest, if, in defiance of the law, we brave 
a king’s decree or his powers, Nay, we must 
remember, first, that we were born women, as who 


of the stronger, so that we must obey in. these _ 
things, and in things.yet.sorer-_I, therefore, ask- 
ing the Spirits Infernal to pardon, seeing that force 
is. put on me herein, will hearken to our rulers; for 
tis witless to be over-busy. 

An. I will not urge thee,—no, nor, if thou yet 
shouldst have the mind, wouldst thou be welcome 
as a worker with me. Nay, be what thou wilt; but 
I will bury him: well for me to die in doing that. 
I shall rest, a loved one with him whom I have 
loved, sinless in my crime; for I owe a longer 


allegiance to the dead than to the living: in that 


world I shall abide forever. But if ¢how wilt, be 


guilty of “dishonoring laws which the gods have 
stablished in honor. 


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ANTITONH, 


ἸΣΜΉΝΗ, 
οἴμοι ταλαίνης, ὡς ὑπερδέδοικά σου, 


ANTITONH, 
Μή μου mpordpBe τὸν σὸν ἐξόρθου πότμον. 


ἸΣΜΉΝΗ, 
ἀλλ᾽ οὖν πρόμηνύσῃς γε τοῦτο μηδενὶ 


85 τοὔργον, κρυφῇ δὲ κεῦθε, σὺν δ᾽ αὕτως ἐγώ. 


ANTITONH, 
οἶμοι, καταύδα. πολλὸν ἐχθίων ἔσει 
σιγῶσ᾽, ἐὰν μὴ πᾶσι κηρύξῃς τάδε. 
ἸΣΜΉΝΗ, 
θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις. 
ΑΝΤΙΓΌΝΗ, 
ἀλλ᾽ οἶδ᾽ ἀρέσκουσ᾽ οἷς μάλισθ᾽ ἁδεῖν με χρή. 


ἹΣΜΗΝΗ. 


90 εἰ καὶ δυνήσει γ᾽" ἀλλ᾽ ἀμηχάνων ἐρᾷς. 


ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΉ, 

οὐκοῦν, ὅταν δὴ μὴ σθένω, πεπαύσομαι. 
ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 

ἀρχὴν δὲ θηρᾶν οὐ πρέπει τἀμήχανα, 


ΑΝΤΙΓΌΝΗ, 
εἰ ταῦτα λέξεις, ἐχθαρεῖ μὲν ἐξ ἐμοῦ, 
ἐχθρὰ δὲ τῷ θανόντι προσκείσει δίκῃ. 


05 GAN’ ἔα με καὶ τὴν ἐξ ἐμοῦ δυσβουλίαν 








ANTIGONE. 


Is. I do them no dishonor; but to defy the 
State, —I have no strength for that. 

An. Such be thy plea:—I, then, will go to 
heap the earth above the brother whom I love. 

Is, Alas, unhappy one! How I fear for thee! 

An. Fear not for me: guide thine own fate 
aright. 

Is. At least, then, disclose this plan to none, 
but hide it closely—and so, too, will I. 

An. Oh, denounce it! Thou wilt be far more 
hateful for thy silence, if thou proclaim not these 
things to all. 

Is. ‘Thou hast a hot heart for chilling deeds. 


An. I know that I please where I am most 
bound to please. 

Is, Aye, if thou canst; but thou wouldst what 
thou canst not. 

An. Why, then, when my strength fails, I shall 
have done. - 

Is, A hopeless quest should not be made at all. 

An. If thus thou speakest, thou wilt have 
hatred from me, and wilt justly be subject to the 
lasting hatred of the dead. But leave me, and the 


folly that is mine alone, to suffer this dread thing ; 
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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


A ἈΝ ὃ 4 A ’ \ 9 
,παθεῖν τὸ δεινὸν τοῦτο" πείσομαι γὰρ ov 
A > , ν ‘ > A A 
τοσοῦτον οὐδέν, ὥστε μὴ OV καλῶς θανεῖν. 


ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 
ἀλλ᾽ εἰ δοκεῖ σοι, στεῖχε. τοῦτο δ᾽ ἴσθ᾽, ὅτι 
ἄνους μὲν ἔρχει, τοῖς φίλοις δ᾽ ὀρθῶς “ἴλη. 


. ΒΕΈΟΟΝΡ Scene. CHorvus. AFTERWARDS CREON WITH TWO 
HERALDS. 


Πάροδος. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
Στροφὴ d. 
100 ἀκτὶς ἀελίου, τὸ κάλλιστον ἑπταπύλῳ φανὲν Θήβᾳ 
τῶν προτέρων φάος, 
ἐφάνθης ποτ᾽, ὦ χρυσέας ἁμέρας βλέφαρον, Διρκαίῳν 
10ὅ ὑπὲρ ῥεέθρων μολοῦσα, 
τὸν λεύκασπιν ᾿Αργόθεν [ἔκ] φῶτα βάντα πανσαγίᾳ, 
φυγάδα πρόδρομον ὀξυτέρῳ κινήσασα χαλινῷ" 


110 ὃν ἐφ᾽ ἡμετέρᾳ +7 Πολυνείκης, 
ἀρθεὶς νεικέων ἐξ ἀμφιλόγων, 
*«#* ὀξέα κλάζων 
αἰετὸς ἐς γῆν ὡς ὑπερέπτη. 
λευκῆς χιόνος πτέρυγι στεγανός, 
πολλῶν μεθ᾽ ὅπλων 
ξύν θ ε , , 

ἱπποκόμοις κορύθεσσιν. 


᾿ ᾿Αντιστροφὴ ά. 
στὰς δ᾽ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων φονώσαισιν ἀμφιχανὼν 
κύκλῳ λόγχαις ἑπτάπυλον στόμα, 





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ANTIGONE. 


for I shall not suffer aught so dreadful as an ig- 
noble death. 

Is. Go, then, if thou must; and of this be sure, 
—that, though thine errand is foolish, to thy dear 
ones thou art truly dear. 


Exit ANTIGONE on the spectators’ left. ISMENE retires into the 
palace by one of the two side-doors. 


SECOND SCENE. CHORUS. AFTERWARDS CREON WITH TWO 
HERALDS. 


CHORUS. 


Beam of the sun, fairest light that ever dawned 
on Thebé of the seven gates, thou hast shone forth 
at last, eye of golden day, arisen above Dircé’s 
streams! The warrior of the white shield, who 
came from Argos in his panoply, hath been stirred 
by thee to headlong flight, in swifter career; who 
set forth against our land by reason of the vexed 
claims of Polyneices; and, like shrill-screaming 
eagle, he flew over into our land, in snow-white 
pinion sheathed, with an arméd throng, and with 
plumage of helms. 

He paused above our dwellings; he ravened 


around our sevenfold portals with spears atkirst 
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ANTITONH. 


220 ἔβα, πρίν ποθ᾽ ἁμετέρων ᾳἱμάτων γένυσιν πλησθῆναί 
τε καὶ στεφάνωμα πύργων 
πευκάενθ' Ἥφαιστον ἑλεῖν. τοῖος ἀμφὶ var’ ἐτάθη 
125 πάταγος “Apeos, ἀντιπάλῳ δυσχείρωμα δράκοντι. 


Ζεὺς γὰρ μεγάλης γλώσσης κόμπους 
ὑπερεχθαίρει, καί σφας ἐσιδὼν 
πολλῷ ῥεύματι προσνισσομένους 
χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπέροπτα, 

παλτῷ ῥιπτεῖ πυρὶ βαλβίδων 

ἐπ᾿ ἄκρων ἤδη 

νίκην ὁρμῶντ᾽ ἀλαλάξαι. 


Στροφὴ β΄. 
9 ig 2 9 8 A , ,’ 
ἀντίτυπος δ᾽ ἐπὶ γᾷ πέσε τανταλωθείς, 
, a 14 , \ ε A 
185 πυρφόρος ὃς τότε μαινομένᾳ ξὺν ὁρμᾷ 
βακχεύων ἐπέπνει ῥιπαῖς ἐχθίστων ἀνέμων. 
> »¥ A ld 
εἶχε δ᾽ ἄλλᾳ τὰ μέν,’ 
140 ἄλλα δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλοις ἐπενώμα στυφελίζων μέγας Αρης 
δεξιόσειρος. 


ἑπτὰ λοχαγοὶ γὰρ ἐφ᾽ ἑπτὰ πύλαις 
ταχθέντες ἴσοι πρὸς ἴσους ἔλιπον 
Ζηνὶ τροπαίῳ πάγχαλκα τέλη, 

πλὴν τοῖν στυγεροῖν, ὦ πατρὸς ἑνὸς 
μητρός τε μιᾶς φύντε καθ᾽ αὑτοῖν 
δικρατεῖς λόγχας στήσαντ᾽ ἔχετον 
κοινοῦ θανάτου μέρος ἄμφω. 


᾿Αντιστροφὴ β΄. 
ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἃ μεγαλώνυμος ἦλθε Νίκα 
τᾷ πολναρμάτῳ ἀντιχαρεῖσα Θήβᾳ, 





Ss 








ANTIGONE. 


for blood; but he went hence, or ever his jaws 
were glutted with our gore, or the Fire-god’s pine- 
fed flame had seized our crown of towers. So fierce 
was the noise of battle raised behind him, a thing 
too hard for him to conquer, as he wrestled with 
his dragon foe. 

For Zeus utterly abhors the boasts of a proud 
tongue; and when he beheld them coming on in a 
great stream, in the haughty pride of clanging gold, 


he smote with brandished fire one who was now δ 


hastening to shout victory at his goal upon our 
ramparts. 

Swung down, he fell on the earth with a crash, 
torch in hand, he who so lately, in the frenzy of the 
mad onset, was raging against us with the blasts of 
his tempestuous hate. But those threats fared not 
as he hoped; and to other foes the mighty War-god 
dispensed their several dooms, dealing havoc around, 
a mighty helper at our need. 

For seven captains at seven gates, matched 
against seven, left the tribute of their panoplies to 
Zeus who turns the battle; save those two of cruel 
fate, who, born of one sire and one mother, set 
against each other their twain conquering spears, 
and are sharers in a common death. 

But since Victory of glorious name hath come to 


us, with joy responsive to the joy of Thebé whose 
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_ ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


180 ἐκ μὲν δὴ πολέμων τῶν νῦν βέσθε λησμοσύναν, 
θεῶν δὲ ναοὺς χοροῖς 
παννυχίοις πάντας ἐπέλθωμεν, ὁ Θήβας δ᾽ ἐλελίχθων 
Βάκχιος ἄρχοι. 


155 ἀλλ᾽ ὅδε γὰρ δὴ βασιλεὺς χώρας, 
Κρέων ὁ Μενοικέως, νεοχμὸς [ταγός], 
νεαραῖσι θεῶν ἐπὶ συντυχίαις 
χωρεῖ, τίνα δὴ μῆτιν ἐρέσσων, 

_ ὅτι σύγκλητον τήνδε γερόντων 

160 προὔθετο λέσχην 

κοινῷ κηρύγματι πέμψας ; 


Ἐπεισόδιον a. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
ἄνδρες, τὰ μὲν δὴ πόλεος ἀσφαλῶς θεοὶ 
πολλῷ σάλῳ σείσαντες ὥρθωσαν πάλιν" 
ὑμᾶς δ᾽ ἐγὼ πομποῖσιν ἐκ πάντων δίχα 

166 ἔστειλ᾽ ἱκέσθαι, τοῦτο μὲν τὰ Λαΐου 
σέβοντας εἰδὼς εὖ θρόνων ἀεὶ κράτη, 
τοῦτ᾽ αὖθις, ἡνίκ᾽ Οἰδίπους ὦρθον πόλιν, 
κἀπεὶ. διώλετ᾽, ἀμφὶ τοὺς κείνων ἔτι 
παῖδας μένοντας ἐμπέδοις φρονήμασιν. 

110 ὅτ᾽ οὖν ἐκεῖνοι πρὸς διπλῆς μοίρας μίαν 
καθ᾽ ἡμέραν ddovro, παίσαντές τε καὶ 
πληγέντες αὐτόχειρι σὺν μιάσματι, 
ἐγὼ κράτη δὴ πάντα καὶ θρόνους ἔχω 
γένους κατ᾽ ἀγχιστεῖα τῶν ὀλωλότων. 

115 ἀμήχανον δὲ παντὸς ἀνδρὸς ἐκμαθεῖν 


ψυχήν τε καὶ φρόνημα καὶ γνώμην, πρὶν ἂν 








ANTIGONE. 


ws | and law-giving. For if any, being supreme guide 
of the State, cleaves not to the best counsels, but 
through some fear, keeps his lips locked, I hold, and 
have ever held, him most base; and if any makes a 
friend ot more account than his fatherland, that i 
man hath no place in my regard. For I—be Zeus ‘ 
my witness, who sees all things always— would not 
be silent if I saw ruin, instead of safety, coming to 
the citizens; nor would I ever deem the country’s 
foe a friend to mvself; remembering this, that our | 
country is the ship that bears us safe, and that only 
while she prospers in our voyage can we nake ug? 
friends. 

Such are the rules by which I guard this ait 
greatness. And in accord with them is the edict 
which I have now published to the folk touching 
the sons of Oedipus;—that Eteocles, who hath 
fallen fighting for our city, in all renown of arms, 
shall be entombed, and crowned with every rite 
that follows the noblest dead to their rest. / But for 
his brother, Polyneices,—-who came back from “ 
exile, and sought to consume utterly with fire the 
city. of his fathers and the shrines of his. fathers’ 
gods,—sought to taste of kindred blood, and to 
lead the remnant into slavery ;—touching this man 
it hath been proclaimed to our people that none 


shall grace him with sepulture or lament, but leave 
19 


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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


τιμὴν προέξουσ᾽ οἱ κακοὶ τῶν ἐνδίκων. 
ἀλλ᾽. ὅστις εὔνους τῇδε τῇ πόλει, θανὼν 
210 καὶ ζῶν ὁμοίως ἐξ ἐμοῦ τιμήσεται. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
σοὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἀρέσκει, mat Μενοικέως Κρέων, 
a A U4 8 S 9 A 4 
τὸν τῇδε δύσνουν καὶ τὸν εὐμενῇ πόλει. 
νόμῳ δὲ χρῆσθαι παντί που γ᾽ ἔνεστί σοι 
καὶ τῶν- θανόντων χὠπόσοι ζῶμεν πέρι. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 


216 ὡς ἂν σκοποί νυν ἦτε τῶν εἰρημένων. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 


, A 4 l4 

νεωτέρῳ τῳ τοῦτο βαστάζειν πρόθες. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 

9 9 νφ ε “ A A 9. 9 », 

ἀλλ᾽ εἴσ᾽ ἑτοῖμοι τοῦ νεκροῦ γ᾽ ἐπίσκοποι. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 

τί δῆτ᾽ ἂν ἄλλο τοῦτ᾽ ἐπεντέλλοις ἔτι ; 
ΚΡΈΩΝ. 


4 \ 9 A A 9 A , 
TO py πυχώρειν τοις ἀπιστουσιν τάδε. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ, 

220 οὐκ ἔστιν οὕτω μῶρος, ὃς θανεῖν ἐρᾷ. 
ean ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 

καὶ μὴν ὁ μισθός γ᾽ οὗτος" ἀλλ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἐλπίδων 

ἄνδρας τὸ κέρδος πολλάκις διώλεσεν. 








ANTIGONE. 


him unburied, a corpse for birds and dogs to eat, a 
ghastly sight of shame. . 

Such the spirit of my dealing; and never, by 
deed of mine, shall the wicked stand in honor be- 
fore the just; but whoso hath good will to Thebes, 
he shall be honored of me, in his life and in his 
death, — ; 

Cu. Such is thy pleasure, Creon, son of Menoe- 
ceus, touching this city’s foe, and its friend; and 
thou hast power, I ween, to take what order thou 
_ wilt, both for the dead, and for all us who live. 

Cr. See, then, that ye be guardians of the 
mandate. 

Cu. Lay the burden of this task on some 
younger man. 

Cr. Nay, watchers of the corpse have been 
found. 

Cu. What, then, is this further charge that thou 
wouldst give? 

Cr. That ye side not with the breakers of these 
commands. ? 


Cu. No man is so foolish that he is enamored 
of death. 
Cr. In sooth, that is the meed; yet lucre hath 
oft ruined men through their hopes. 
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ANTITONH. 


Tamp Scenz. Cron. Guarp. 
ΦΎΛΑΞ. 
ἄναξ, ἐρῶ μὲν οὐχ ὅπως τάχους ὕπο 
δύσπνους ἱκάνω, κοῦφον ἐξάρας πόδα. 
225 πολλὰς γὰρ ἔσχον φροντίδων ἐπιστάσεις, 
ε a a 3 Α 3 9 4 
ὁδοῖς κυκλῶν ἐμαυτὸν εἰς ἀναστροφήν. 
\ Q ¥ 4 
ψυχὴ yap ηὗδα πολλά μοι μυθουμένη " 
τάλας, τί χωρεῖς of μολὼν δώσεις δίκην ; 
τλήμων, μένεις ad; Kel τάδ᾽ εἴσεται Κρέων 
280 ἄλλον παρ᾽ ἀνδρός, πῶς σὺ δῆτ᾽ οὐκ ἀλγυνεῖ; 
τοιαῦθ᾽ ἑλίσσων ἤνυτον σπουδῇ βραδύς, 
χοὔτως ὁδὸς βραχεῖα γίγνεται μακρά. 
τέλος γε μέντοι δεῦρ᾽ ἐνίκησεν μολεῖν 
ld 9 Q A 2 A ld 2 & 
σοί. κεὶ τὸ μηδὲν ἐξερῶ, φράσω δ᾽ ὅμως" 
286 τῆς ἐλπίδος γὰρ ἔρχομαι δεδραγμένος, 
4 a] ¥ \ > 4 
τὸ μὴ παθεῖν ἂν ἄλλο πλὴν τὸ μόρσιμον. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
τί δ᾽ ἔστιν ἀνθ᾽ οὗ τήνδ᾽ ἔχεις ἀθυμίαν; 
ΦΎΛΑΞ. 
φράσαι θέλω σοι πρῶτα τἀμαυτοῦ" τὸ γὰρ 
A 9 ¥ 9 ἔδ 9 ¥ 9 18 9 g ε ὃ aA 
πρᾶγμ᾽ ovr ἔδρασ᾽ οὔτ᾽ εἶδον ὅστις ἣν ὁ δρῶν, 
340 οὐδ᾽ ἂν δικαίως ἐς κακὸν πέσοιμί τι. | 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 

εὖ ye στοχάζει κἀποφράγνυσαι, ike 

SY A a 9 ὁ aA lA 

τὸ πρᾶγμα. δηλοῖς δ᾽ ὥς τι. σημανῶν νέον. 
ΦΥΛΑΑ͂. 

τὰ δεινὰ γάρ τοι προστίθησ᾽ ὄκνον πολύν. 





ANTIGONE. 


THIRD SCENE. CREON. GUARD. 
Enter GUARD. 


My liege, I will not say that I come breathless 
from speed, or that I have plied a nimble foot; for 
often did my thoughts make me pause, and wheel 
around in my path, to return. My mind was hold- 
ing large discourse with me; ‘ Fool, wky goest thou 
to thy certain doom?’ ‘Wretch, tarrying again? 
And if Creon hears this from another, must not 
thou smart for it?’ So debating, I went on my 
way with lagging steps, and thus a short road was 
made long. At last, however, it carried the day 
that I should come hither—to thee; and, though 
my tale be nought, yet will I tell it; for I come 
with a good grip on one hope,—that I can suffer 
nothing but what is my fate. 

Cr. And what is it that disquiets thee thus? 

Gu. I wish to tell thee first about myself — 1 
did not do the deed —I did not see the doer — it 
were not right that I should come to any harm. 

Cr. Thou hast a shrewd eye for thy mark; well 
dost thou fence thyself round against the blame: — 
clearly thou hast some strange thing to tell. 

Gu. Aye, truly; dread news makes one pause 


long. 
23 








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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
οὔκουν ἐρεῖς ποτ᾽, εἶτ᾽ ἀπαλλαχθεὶς ἄπει; 


@TAAE. 


245 καὶ δὴ λέγω σοι. τὸν νεκρόν τις ἀρτίως 


θάψας βέβηκε κἀπὶ χρωτὶ διψίαν 

κόνιν παλύνας κἀφαγιστεύσας ἃ χρή. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 

τί φής; τίς ἀνδρῶν ἦν ὁ τολμήσας τάδε; 
ΦΥΛΑΈ. 


οὐκ οἶδ᾽ . ἐκεῖ γὰρ οὔτε που γενῇδος ἦν 


260 πλῆγμ᾽, οὐ δικέλλης ἐκβολή " στύφλος δὲ 


καὶ χέρσος, ἀρρὼξ οὐδ᾽ ἐπημαξευμένη 
τροχοῖσιν, GAN ἄσημος οὑργάτης τις ἦν. 
ὅπως δ᾽ ὁ πρῶτος ἡμὶν ἡμεροσκόπος 
δείκνυσι, πᾶσι θαῦμα δυσχερὲς παρῆν. 


2556 μὲν γὰρ ἠφάνιστο, τυμβήρης μὲν ov, 


\ δ᾽ ὦ 4 9 > aA 4 
λεπτὴ δ᾽, ἄγος φεύγοντος ws, ἐπὴν κόνις. 
σημεῖα δ᾽ οὔτε θηρὸς οὔτε Tov κυνῶν 
9 , 9 , 9 , 
ἐλθόντος, οὐ σπάσαντος, ἐξεφαίνετο. 
λόγοι δ᾽ ἐν ἀλλήλοισιν ἐρρόθουν κακοί, 


260 φύλαξ ἐλέγχων φύλακα' κἂν ἐγίγνετο 


Ν A 9 939 ¢ 4 A 
πληγὴ τελευτῶσ᾽, οὐδ᾽ ὁ κωλύσων παρῆν" 
εἷς γάρ τις ἣν ἕκαστος οὑὐξειργασμένος, 

> Ἁ 9ϑ 4 3 > » \ 99 
κοὐδεὶς ἐναργής, ἀλλ᾽ ἔφευγε μὴ εἰδέναι" 
ἣμεν δ᾽ ἑτοῖμοι καὶ μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν 


266 καὶ πῦρ διέρπειν καὶ θεοὺς ὁρκωμοτεῖν 


τὸ μήτε δρᾶσαι μήτε τῳ ξυνειδέναι 
τὸ πρᾶγμα βουλεύσαντι μήτ᾽ εἰργασμένῳ. 
τέλος δ᾽, ὅτ᾽ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐρευνῶσι πλέον, 








ANTIGONE. 


Cr. Then tell it, wilt thou, and so get thee gone? 

Gu. Well, this is it.— The corpse — some one 
hath just given it burial, and gone away, — after 
sprinkling thirsty dust on the flesh, with such other 
rites as piety enjoins. 

Cr. What sayest thou? What living man hath 
dared this deed ? 


Gu. I know not; no stroke of pickaxe was seen 
there, no earth thrown up by mattock; the ground 
was hard and dry, unbroken, without track of 
wheels; the doer was one who had left no trace. 
And when the first day-watchman showed it to us, 
sore wonder fell on all. The dead man was veiled 
from us; not shut within a tomb, but lightly strewn 


with dust, as by the hand of one who shunned a 
curse. And no sign met the eye as though any 
beast of prey or any dog had come nigh to him, or 
torn him. 

Then evil words flew fast and loud among us, 
guard accusing guard ; and it would e’en have come 
to blows at last, nor was there any to hinder. 
Every man was the culprit, and no one was con- 
victed, but all disclaimed knowledge of the deed. 
And we were ready to take red-hot iron in our 
hands ;— to walk through fire ;— to make oath by 
the gods that we had not done the deed, — that we 


were not privy to the planning or the doing. 
25 : 





ANTITONH. 


λέγει τις εἷς, ὃς πάντας ἐς πέδον κάρα 
210 νεῦσαι φόβῳ προὔτρεψεν' οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν 
οὔτ᾽ ἀντιφωνεῖν, οὔθ᾽ ὅπως δρῶντες καλῶς 
4 > ε. le) 4. > 
πράξαιμεν. ἦν δ᾽ ὁ μῦθος ὡς ἀνοιστέον 
σοὶ τοὔργον εἴη τοῦτο κοὐχὶ κρυπτέον. 
Ν A> 9 Ὁ > b} + td 
καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐνίκα, κἀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα 
275 πάλος καθαιρεῖ τοῦτο τἀγαθὸν λαβεῖν. 
4 >: 3 ε A 18” 9 
πάρειμι δ᾽ ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν, οἶδ᾽ ὅτι" 
LA \ 3 A ¥ a 9 A 
στέργει yap οὐδεὶς ἄγγελον κακῶν ἐπῶν. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ, 
ἄναξ, ἐμοί τοι, μή τι καὶ θεήλατον 
τοὔργον τόδ᾽, ἡ ξύννοια βουλεύει πάλαι. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 

280 παῦσαι πρὶν ὀργῆς καί με μεστῶσαι λέγων, 
μὴ ᾿φευρεθῇς ἄνους τε καὶ γέρων ἅμα. 
λέγεις γὰρ οὐκ ἀνεκτά, δαίμονας λέγων 
πρόνοιαν ἴσχειν τοῦδε τοῦ νεκροῦ πέρι. 
πότερον ὑπερτιμῶντες ὡς εὐεργέτην 

286 ἔκρυπτον αὐτόν, ὅστις ἀμφικίονας 

‘ , 3 , 
ναοὺς πυρώσων ἦλθε κἀναθήματα 
καὶ γῆν ἐκείνων, καὶ νόμους SiacKkedav: 
ἢ τοὺς κακοὺς τιμῶντας εἰσορᾷς θεούς ; 
οὐκ ἔστιν. ἀλλὰ ταῦτα καὶ πάλαι πόλεως 

290 ἄνδρες μόλις φέροντες ἐρρόθουν ἐμοί, 

A 4 ,’ δ᾽ ε A 
κρυφὴ κάρα σείοντες, οὐδ᾽ ὑπὸ ζυγῷ 
λόφον᾽ δικαίως εἶχον, ὡς στέργειν ἐμέ. 
ἐκ τῶνδε τούτους ἐξεπίσταμαι καλῶς 
παρηγμένους μισθοῖσιν εἰργάσθαι τάδε. 

295 οὐδὲν γὰρ ἀνθρώποισιν οἷον ἄργυρος 
κακὸν νόμισμ᾽ ἔβλαστε. τοῦτο καὶ πόλεις 





ANTIGONE. 


At last, when all our searching was fruitless, one 
spake, who made us all bend our faces on the earth 
in fear; for we saw not how we could gainsay 
him, or escape mischance if we obeyed. His coun- 
sel was that this deed must be reported to thee, 
and not hidden. And this seemed best; and the 
lot doomed my hapless self to win this prize. So 
here I standi—as unwelcome as unwilling, well I 
wot; for no man delights in the bearer of bad 
news. 

Cu. O King, my thoughts have long been whis- 
pering, can this deed, perchance, be e’en the work 
of gods? 

Cr. Cease, ere thy words fill me utterly with , 
wrath, lest thou be found at once an old man and / 
foolish. For thou sayest what is not to be borne, 
in saying that the gods have care for this corpse. / 
Was it for high reward of trusty service that they | 
sought to hide his nakedness, who came to burn ' 
their pillared shrines and sacred treasures, to burn ἃ 
their land, and scatter its laws to the winds? Or 
dost thou behold the gods honoring the wicked ? ; 
It cannot be. No! From the first there were cer- 


tain in the town that muttered against me, chafing 
at this edict, wagging their heads in secret; and 
kept not their necks duly under the yoke, like men 


contented with my sway. 
. 27 








ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


πορθεῖ, τόδ᾽ ἄνδρας ἐξανίστησιν δόμων, 
τόδ᾽ ἐκδιδάσκει καὶ παραλλάσσει φρένας 
Ι χρηστὰς πρὸς αἰσχρὰ πράγμαθ᾽ ἵστασθαι βροτῶν" 
| ’ δ᾽ £5 > 4 ¥ 
300 πανουργίας δ᾽ ἔδειξεν ἀνθρώποις ἔχειν 
Ν Ν ¥ ὃ 2 ἰδέ 
καὶ παντὸς ἔργου δυσσέβειαν εἰδέναι. 
ὅσοι δὲ μισθαρνοῦντες ἤνυσαν τάδε, 
, 3. 3s e A , 
χρόνῳ ποτ᾽ ἐξέπραξαν ὡς δοῦναι δίκην. 
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} > as 9 > ῳ , 2 
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lit οὐκ ἐξ ἅπαντος δεῖ τὸ κερδαίνειν φιλεῖν. 
ἐκ τῶν γὰρ αἰσχρῶν λημμάτων τοὺς πλείονας 
ἀτωμένους ἴδοις ἂν ἢ σεσωσμένους. 





Hil : ΦΎΛΑΞ. 


315 εἰπεῖν τι δώσεις, ἢ στραφεὶς οὕτως ἴω; ἢ 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 4 


9 Ἁ A e 9 A 4 
οὐκ οἶσθα καὶ viv ὡς ἀνιαρῶς λέγεις ; 
+ ΦΎΛΑΞ. 
9 A > Νν aA ἘΠῚ A 4 a ὃ 4 
ἐν τοῖσιν ὠσὶν ἢ ᾽πὶ τῇ ψυχῇ δάκνει; 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
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τί δαί; ῥυθμίζεις τὴν ἐμὴν λύπην ὅπου; 


@TAAE. 
ὁ δρῶν σ᾽ ἀνιᾷ τὰς φρένας, τὰ δ᾽ dr’ ἐγώ. 














ANTIGONE. 


beguiled and bribed to do this deed./ : Nothing so 
ovil as money ever grew to be current among men. 
This lays cities low, this drives men from their 
homes, th’s trains and warps honest souls till they 
set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches 
folk to practise villanies, and to know every god- 
less deed. 

But all the men who wrought this thing for hire 
have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay 
the price. Now, as Zeus still hath my reverence, 
know this —I tell it thee on my oath:—If ye find 
not the very author of this burial, and produce him 
before mine eyes, death alone shall not be enough ἰ 
for you, till first, hung up alive, ye have revealed 
this outrage, — that henceforth ye may thieve with 
better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and 
learn that it is not well to love gain from every 
source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf 
brings more men to ruin than to weal.,, 

Gu. May I speak? Or shall I just turn and 
go? 

Cr. Knowest thou not that even now thy voice 
offends ? 

Gu. [5 thy smart in the ears, or in the soul? 

Cr. And why wouldst thou define the seat o 


my pain? ᾿ 
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Ht 2 ; ®TAAE. 

ay ἀλλ᾽ εὑρεθείη μὲν μάλιστ᾽ " ἐὰν δέ τοι 

tii ληφθῇ τε καὶ μή, τοῦτο yap τύχη κρινεῖ, Ὶ 

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Hi σωθεὶς ὀφείλω τοῖς θεοῖς πολλὴν χάριν. 


Στάσιμον ά. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
Στροφὴ a. 
πολλὰ τὰ δεινά, κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει" 
886 τοῦτο καὶ πολιοῦ πέραν πόντου χειμερίῳ νότῳ : 
χωρεῖ, περιβρυχίοισιν 
A e 9 
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A \ e 4 A 
θεῶν τε τὰν ὑπερτάταν, Tar . 





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ANTIGONE. 


(su. The doer vexes thy mind, but I, thine ears. 

(Cr, Ah, thou art a born babbler, ’tis well seen. 

Gu. May be, but never the doer of this deed. 

Cr. Yea, and more,—the seller of thy life for 
silver, 

Gu. Alas! ’Tis sad, truly, that he who judges 
should misjudge. 

Cr, Let thy fancy piuy with ‘judgment’ as it 
will ;— but, if ye show me not the doers of these 
things, ye shall avow that dastardly gains work 
SOrrows. _ (Exit, 

Gu. Well, may he be found! so ’twere best. 
But, be he caught, or be he not—fortune must 
settle that — truly thou wilt not see me here again. 
Saved, even now, beyond hope and thought, I owe 
the gods great thanks. [Exit. 





CHorvus. 


Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful 
than man; the power that crosses the white sea, 
driven by the stormy south-wind, making a path 
under surges that threaten to engulf him; and 
Earth, the eldest of the gods, the immortal, the 
unwearied, doth he wear, turning the soil with the 
offspring of horses, as the ploughs go to and fro 


from year to year. 


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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


ἄφθιτον, ἀκαμάταν ἀποτρύεται, 
840 ἰλλομένων ἀρότρων Eros εἷς ἔτος, 
ἱππείῳ γένει πολεύων. 
᾿Αντιστροφὴ d. 
κουφονόων τε φῦλον ὀρνίθων ἀμφιβαλὼν ἄγει 
845 καὶ θηρῶν ἀγρίων ἔθνη πόντου 7° εἰναλίαν φύσιν 
σπείραισι δικτυοκλώστοις 
ὐρυῤραδὴν dinky 
κρατεῖ δὲ μηχαναῖς ἀγραύλου 
860 θηρὸς ὀρεσσιβάτα, λασιαύχενά θ' 
ἵππον ὑπάξεται ἀμφίλοφον ζυγὸν 
οὔρειόν τ᾽ ἀκμῆτα ταῦρον. 
Στροφὴ β΄. 
καὶ φθέγμα καὶ ἀνεμόεν 


355 φρόνημα καὶ ἀστυνόμους ὀργὰς ἐδιδάξατο καὶ δυσαύλων 
πάγων ὑπαίθρεια καὶ δύσομβρα φεύγειν βέλη, ὁ 
παντοπόρος" ἄπορος ἐπ᾽ οὐδὲν ἔρχεται 
861 τὸ μέλλον: ἼΛιδα μόνον φεῦξιν οὐκ ἐπάξεται" 
νόσων δ᾽ ἀμηχάνων φυγὰς ξυμπέφρασται. 


᾿Αντιστροφὴ β΄. 
385 σοφόν τι τὸ μηχανόεν 
τέχνας ὑπὲρ ἐλπίδ᾽ ἔχων τοτὲ μὲν κακόν, ἄλλοτ᾽ ἐπ᾽ 
ἐσθλὸν ἕρπει" 
νόμους παρείρων χθονὸς θεῷν 7° ἔνορκον δίκαν, 
870 ὑψίπολις: ἄπολις, ὅτῳ τὸ μὴ καλὸν 
ξύνεστι τόλμας χάριν. μήτ᾽ ἐμοὶ παρέστιος 
875 γένοιτο μήτ᾽ ἴσον φρονῶν ὃς τάδ᾽ ἔρδει. 


ἐς δαιμόνιον τέρας ἀμφινοῶ 
τόδε" πῶς εἰδὼς ἀντιλογήσω 





Puy 


χύλων 





ANTIGONE. 


And the light-hearted race of birds, and the 
tribes of savage beasts, and the sea-brood of the 
deep, he snares in the meshes of his woven toils, 
he leads captive, man excellent in wit. And he 
masters by his arts the beast whose lair is in the 
wilds, who roams the hills; he tames the horse of 
shaggy mane, he puts the yoke upon its neck, he 
tames the tireless mountain bull. 

And speech, and wind-swift thought, and all the 
moods that mould a state, ha’ he taught himself ; 
and how to flee the arrows of the frost, when ’tis 
hard lodging under the clear sky, and the arrows 
of the rushing rain; yea, he hath resource for all ; 
without resource he meets nothing that must come ; 
only against Death shall he call for aid in vain; 
but from baffling maladies he hath devised escapes. 

Cunning beyond fancy’s dream is the fertile skill 
which brings him, now to evil, now to good. When 
he honors the laws of the land, and that justice 
which he hath sworn by the gods to uphold, proudly 
stands his city: no city hath he who, for his rash- 
ness, dwells with sin. Never may he share my 
hearth, never think my thoughts, who doth these 
things | 

Enter the Guard, on the spectators’ left, leading in 
ANTIGONE. 


What portent from the gods is this? —my soul 
is amazed. I know her—how can I deny that yon 


maiden is Antigone? 
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ANTITONH. 


τήνδ᾽ οὐκ εἶναι παῖδ᾽ ᾿Αντιγόνην ; 

ὦ δύστηνος καὶ δυστήνου ᾿ 

πατρὸς Οἰδιπόδα, τί ποτ᾽; οὐ δή που 
σέ γ᾽ ἀπιστοῦσαν τοῖς βασιλείοις 
ἀπάγουσι νόμοις 


καὶ ἐν ἀφροσύνῃ καθελόντες ; 


Fouriu ΚΟΕΝΕ. Guarp. ANTIGONE. AFTERWARDS CREON 
WITH TWO ATTENDANTS. 


Ἐπεισόδιον β΄. 


ΦΎΛΑΞ. 
ἦδ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἐκείνη τοὔργον ἡ ᾿ξειργασμένη " 
886 τήνδ᾽ εἵλομεν θάπτουσαν. ἀλλὰ ποῦ Κρέων ; 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
ὅδ᾽ ἐκ δόμων ἄψορρος εἰς δέον περᾷ. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 

τί δ᾽ ἔστι; ποίᾳ ξύμμετρος προὔβην τύχῃ ; 
ΦΎΛΑΞ. 

ἄναξ, βροτοῖσιν οὐδέν ἐστ᾽ ἀπώμοτον" 
ψεύδει γὰρ ἡ ᾽πίνοια τὴν γνώμην " ἐπεὶ 

890 σχολῇ mot? ἥξειν δεῦρ᾽ ἂν ἐξηύχουν ἐγὼ 
ταῖς σαῖς ἀπειλαῖς, αἷς ἐχειμάσθην τότε" 
ἀλλ᾽, ἡ γὰρ ἐκτὸς καὶ παρ᾽ ἐλπίδας χαρὰ 
ἔοικεν ἄλλῃ μῆκος οὐδὲν ἡδονῇ, 
ἥκω, St ὅρκων καίπερ ὧν ἀπώμοτος, 

896 κόρην ἄγων τήνδ᾽, ἣ καθευρέθη τάφον 
κοσμοῦσα. κλῆρος ἐνθάδ᾽ οὐκ ἐπάλλετο, 
ἀλλ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἐμὸν θοὕρμαιον, οὐκ ἄλλου, τόδε, 





ANTIGONE. 


O hapless, and child of hapless sire,—of Oedi- 
pus! What means this? Thou brought a 
prisoner? —thou, disloyal to the King’s laws, and 
taken in folly? 


FouRTH SCENE. GUARD. ANTIGONE. AFTERWARDS CREON 
WITH TWO ATTENDANTS. 


GUARD. 


Here she is, the doer of the deed: —we caught 
this girl burying him :—but where is Creon? 

Cu. Lo, he comes forth again from the house, 
at our need. 

Cr. What is it? What hath chanced, that 
makes my coming timely? 

Gu. O King, against nothing should men 
pledge their word; for the after-thought belies the 
first intent. I could have vowed that ! should not 
soon be here: again,—scared by thy threats, with 
which I had just been lashed: but,—since the joy 
that surprises and transcends our hopes is like in 
fulness to no other pleasure, — I have come, though 
tis in breach of my sworn oath, bringing this maid ; 


-who was taken showing grace to the dead. This 


time there was no casting of lots; no, this luck 


hath fallen to me, and to none else. And now, 
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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


καὶ νῦν, ἀναξ, τήνδ᾽ αὐτός, ὡς θέλεις, λαβὼν 
καὶ κρῖνε κἀξέλεγχ᾽ " ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἐλεύθερος 
400 δίκαιός εἰμι τῶνδ᾽ ἀπηλλάχθαι κακῶν. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
ἄγεις δὲ τήνδε τῷ τρόπῳ πόθεν λαβών ; 
ΦΎΛΑΞ. 
αὕτη τὸν ἄνδρ᾽ ante: πάντ᾽ ἐπίστασαι. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
ἢ καὶ ξυνίης καὶ λέγεις ὀρθῶς ἃ dys; 
ΦΎΛΛΕ. 
ταύτην γ᾽ ἰδὼν θάπτουσαν ὃν σὺ τὸν νεκρὸν 
406 ἀπεῖπας. ἄρ᾽ ἔνδηλα καὶ σαφῆ λέγω; 


ΚΡΕΩΝ, 


4 A ea 9 ’ ε 4 
καὶ πῶς ὁρᾶται κἀπίληπτος ἠρέθη ; 


ΦΎΛΑΞ. 
A 4 A > ν A 9 
τοιοῦτον ἦν TO πρᾶγμ᾽. ὅπως yap ἥκομεν, 
Α ΄σ. Q 43> 9 A> 9 , 
πρὸς σοῦ τὰ δείν᾽ ἐκεῖν᾽ ἐπηπειλημένοιυ, 
πᾶσαν κόνιν σήραντες ἣ κατεῖχε τὸν 
410 νέκυν, μυδῶν τε σῶμα γυμνώσαντες εὖ, 
καθήμεθ᾽' ἄκρων ἐκ πάγων ὑπήνεμοιυ, 
9 \ 9 3 9 lel \ 4, 4 
ὀσμὴν an αὐτοῦ μὴ βάλῃ πεφευγότες, 
> Ἁ A ¥ 3 > A 9 l4 
ἐγερτὶ κινῶν ἄνδρ᾽ ἀνὴρ ἐπιρρόθοις 
κακοῖσιν, εἴ τις τοῦδ᾽ ἀκηδήσοι πόνου. 
4 4Q2 A ¥ 9. 9 227 
415 χρόνον τάδ᾽ ἣν τοσοῦτον, ἔστ᾽ ἐν αἰθέρι 
μέσῳ κατέστη λαμπρὸς ἡλίου κύκλος 
καὶ καῦμ᾽ ἔθαλπε' καὶ τότ᾽ ἐξαίφνης χθονὸς 
τυφὼς ἀείρας σκηπτόν, οὐράνιον ἄχος, 
ld , A 9 7 , 
πίμπλησι πεδίον, πᾶσαν αἰκίζων φόβην 















ANTIGONF 


Sire, take her thyself, question her, examine her, as 
thou wilt; but I have a right to free and final quit- 
tance of this trouble. 

Cr. And thy prisoner here—how and whence 
hast thou taken her? 

Gu. She was burying the man; thou knowest 
all. 

Cr. Dost thou mean what thou sayest? Dost 
thou speak aright? 

Gu. I saw her burying the corpse that thou 
hadst forbidden to bury. Is that plain and clear?. 

Cr. And how was she seen? how taken in the 
act? 

Gu. It befell on this wise. When we had come 
to the place,— with those dread menaces of thine 
upon us, — we swept away all the dust that covered 
the corpse, and bared the dank body well; and 
then sat us down on the brow of the hill, to wind- 
ward, heedful that the smell from him should not 
strike us ; every man was wide awake, and kept his 
neighbor alert with torrents of threats, if any one 
should be careless of this task. 

So went it, until the sun’s bright orb stood in 
mid heaven, and the heat began to burn: and then 
suddenly a whirlwind lifted from the earth a storm 
of dust, a trouble in the sky, and filled the plain, 


marring all the leafage of its woods: and the wide 
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ANTITONH. 


420 ὕλης πεδιάδος, ἐν δ᾽ ἐμεστώθη μέγας 
αἰθήρ' μύσαντες δ᾽ εἴχομιν θείαν νόσον. 
καὶ τοῦδ᾽ ἀπαλλαγέντος ἐν χρόνῳ μακρῷ, 
ἡ. παῖς ὁρᾶται, κἀνακωκύει πικρᾶς 
ὄρνιθος ὀξὺν φθόγγον, ὡς ὅταν κενῆς 

425 εὐνῆς νεοσσῶν ὀρφανὸν βλέψῃ λέχος" 
οὕτω δὲ χαὕὔτη, ψιλὸν ὡς ὁρᾷ νέκυν, 
γόοισιν ἐξῴμωξεν, ἐκ δ᾽ ἀρὰς κακὰς 
ἠρᾶτο τοῖσιν τοὔργον ἐξειργασμώνοις. 
καὶ χερσὶν εὐθὺς διψίαν φέρει κόνιν, 

480 ἔκ 7° εὐκροι ήἥτου χαλκέας ἄρδην mpdxou 
χοαῖσι τρισπόνδοισι τὸν νέκυν στέφει. 
χἠμεῖς ἰδόντες ἱέμεσθα, σὺν δέ νιν 
θηρώμεθ᾽ εὐθὺς οὐδὲν ἐκπεπληγμένην. 
καὶ τάς τε πρόσθεν τάς τε νῦν ἠλέγχομεν 

435 πράξεις" ἅπαρνος δ᾽ οὐδενὸς καθίστατο, 
ἀλλ᾽ ἡδέως ἔμοιγε κἀλγεινῶς ἅμα. 
τὸ μὲν γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐκ κακῶν πεφευγέναι 
ἥδιστον, ἐς κακὸν δὲ τοὺς didous ἄγειν 
ἀλγεινόν. ἀλλὰ πάντα ταῦθ᾽ ἥσσω λαβεῖν 

440 ἐμοὶ πέφυκεν τῆς ἐμῆς σωτηρίας. 


ΚΡΕΩΝ. 


σὲ δή, σὲ τὴν νεύουσαν εἰς πέδον κάρα, 
φὴς ἢ καταρνεῖ μὴ δεδρακώναι τάδε; 


ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ. 
καὶ φημὶ δρᾶσαι κοὐκ ἀπαρνοῦμαι τὸ μή. 
ΚΡΈΩΝ. 


σὺ μὲν κομίζοις ἂν σεαυτὸν ἧ θέλεις, 
446 ἔξω βαρείας αἰτίας ἐλεύθερον" 








ANTIGONE. 


air was choked therewith: we closed our eyes, and 
bore the plague from the gods. 

And when, after a long while, this storm had 
passed, the maid was seen; and she cried aloud 
with the sharp cry of a bird in its bitterness,— 
even as when, within the empty nest, it sees the 
bed stripped of its nestlings. So she also, when 
she saw the corpse bare, lifted up a voice of wailing, 
and called down curses on the doers of that deed. 
And straightway she brought thirsty dust in her 
hands; and from a shapely ewer of bronze, held 
high, with thrice-poured drink-offering she crowned 
the dead. 

We rushed forward when we saw it, and at once 
closed upon our quarry, who was in no wise dis- 
mayed. Then we taxed her with her past and 
present doings; and she stood not on denial of 
aught, — at once to my joy and to my pain. To 
have escaped from ills one’s self is a great joy; but 
‘tis painful to bring friends to ill. Howbeit, all 
such things are of less account to me than mine 
own safety. 

Cr. Thou—thou whose face is bent to earth — 
dost thou avow, or disavow, this deed ? 

An. I avow it; I make no denial. 

Cr. (Zo Guard) Thou canst betake thee whither 


thou wilt, free and clear of a grave charge. [£vxit 
Guard. 


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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΈΟΥΣ 


σὺ δ᾽ εἰπέ μοι μὴ μῆκος, ἀλλὰ συντόμως, 
ἤδησθα κηρυχθέντα μὴ πράσσειν τάδε; 


ANTITONH, 
ἤδη. τί δ᾽ οὐκ ἔμελλον; ἐμφανῆ γὰρ ἦν. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 


καὶ δῆτ᾽ ἐτόλμας τούσδ᾽ ὑπερβαίνειν νόμους ; 


ΑΝΤΙΓΌΝΗ, 


450 οὐ γάρ τί μοι Ζεὺς ἦν ὁ κηρύξας τάδε, 


οὐδ᾽ ἡ ξύνοικος τῶν κάτω θεῶν Δίκη 
τοιούσδ᾽ ἐν ἀνθρώποισιν ὥρισεν νόμους" 
οὐδὲ σθένειν τοσοῦτον φόμην τὰ σὰ 

4 9 > »¥ 9 A A 
κηρύγμαθ᾽ ὥστ᾽ ἄγραπτα κἀσφαλῇ θεῶν 


455 νόμιμα δύνασθαι θνητὸν ὄνθ᾽ ὑπερδραμεῖν. 


οὐ γάρ τι νῦν ye κἀχθές, ἀλλ᾽ ἀεί ποτε 
ζῇ ταῦτα, κοὐδεὶς οἶδεν ἐξ ὅτου φάνη. 
τούτων ἐγὼ οὐκ ἔμελλον, ἀνδρὸς οὐδενὸς 
φρόνημα δείσασ᾽, ἐν θεοῖσι τὴν δίκην 


4600 δώσειν. θανουμένη yap ἐξήδη" τί δ᾽ ov; 


κεὶ μὴ σὺ προὐκήρυξας. εἰ δὲ τοῦ χρόνου 
πρόσθεν θανοῦμαι, κέρδος αὖτ᾽ ἐγὼ λέγω. 
ὅστις γὰρ ἐν πολλοῖσιν ὡς ἐγώ κακοῖς 

ζῇ, πῶς ὅδ᾽ οὐχὶ κατθανὼν κέρδος φέρει ; 


ν » A A , aA 
465 οὕτως ἔμοιγε τοῦδε τοῦ μόρου τυχεῖν 


παρ᾽ οὐδὲν ἄλγος" ἀλλ᾽ ἄν, εἰ τὸν ἐξ ἐμῆς 
μητρὸς θανόντ᾽ ἄταφον ἀνεσχόμην νέκυν, 


κείνοις ἦν ἤλγουν' τοῖσδε δ᾽ οὐκ ἀλγύνομαι. 


Α 3 3 A A A A 4 
σοὶ δ᾽ εἰ δοκῶ viv μῶρα δρῶσα τυγχάνειν, 


410 σχεδόν τι μώρῳ μωρίαν ᾿ὀφλισκάνω. 











ANTIGONE. 


(Zo AnticonE.) Now, tell me thou— not in many 
words, but briefly — knewest thou that an edict had 
forbidden this? 

An. I knew it: could I help it? It was public. 

Cr. And thou didst indeed dare to transgress 
that law? 

An. Yes; for it was not Zeus that had published 
me that edict; not such are the laws set among 
meni by the Justice who dwells with the gods below; 
nor-deemed I that thy decrees were of such force, 
that a mortal could override the unwritten and un- 


“failing statutes of heaven. For their life is not of 
to-day or yesterday, but from all time, and no man 


knows when they were first put forth. _ 

Not through dread of any human pride could I 
answer to the gods for breaking ¢hese. Die I must, 
—I knew that well (how should I not?)—even 
without thy edicts. But if I am to die before my 
time, I count that a gain: for when any one lives, 
as I do, compassed about with evils, can such an 
one find aught but gain in death? 

So for me to meet this doom is trifling grief; but 
if I had suffered my mother’s son to lie in death an 
unburied corpse, that would have grieved me; for 


this, I am not grieved. And if my present deeds 
are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish 
. e eee nee “3... 

judge: semigne my folly. 


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ANTITONH. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
δηλοῖ τὸ γέννημ᾽ ὠμὸν ἐξ ὠμοῦ πατρὸς 
τῆς παιδός" εἴκειν δ᾽ οὐκ ἐπίσταται κακοῖς. 


ΚΡΈΩΝ. 
ἀλλ᾽ ἴσθι τοι τὰ σκλήρ᾽ ἄγαν φρονήματα 
πίπτειν μάλιστα, καὶ τὸν ἐγκρατέστατον 

, 3 Ν 9 Ν A 
475 σίδηρον ὀπτὸν ἐκ πυρὸς περισκελῆ 
id \ e 4 A 7 af > a 
θραυσθέντα καὶ ῥαγέντα πλεῖστ᾽ ἂν εἰσίδοις"» 
σμικρῷ χαλινῷ δ᾽ οἶδα τοὺς θυμουμένους 
ἵππους καταρτυθέντας. οὐ γὰρ ἐκπέλει 
Lal (a 4 A 4 ? A 2 
φρονεῖν μέγ᾽ ὅστις δοῦλός ἐστι τῶν πέλας. 
480 αὕτη δ᾽ ὑβρίζειν μὲν τότ᾽ ἐξηπίστατο, 
νόμους ὑπερβαίνουσα τοὺς προκειμένους" 
ὕβρις δ᾽, ἐπεὶ δέδρακεν, ἥδε δευτέρα, 
τούτοις ἐπαυχεῖν καὶ δεδρακυῖαν γελᾶν. 
A > A A > 9 , 9 δ᾽ 9 l4 
ἢ νῦν ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἀνήρ, αὕτη δ᾽ ἀνήρ, 
3 aA ΑΚ ΒΑ, A A , , 
485 εἰ ταῦτ᾽ ἀνατὶ τῇδε κείσεται κράτη. 
ἀλλ᾽ εἴτ᾽ ἀδελφῆς εἴθ᾽ ὁμαιμονεστέρα 
τοῦ παντὸς ἡμῖν Ζηνὸς ἑρκείου κυρεῖ, 
3 », 9 ’ > 9 4 
αὐτή te χὴ ξύναιμος οὐκ ἀλύξετον 
la , bY Α 4 ’ ¥ 
μόρου κακίστου" καὶ yap οὖν κείνην ἴσον 
490 ἐπαιτιῶμαι τοῦδε βουλεῦσαι τάφου. 
, aA 9 Ὅν» \ 9 ,’ 
καί νιν καλεῖτ᾽- ἔσω γὰρ εἶδον ἀρτίως 
| λ A > A δ᾽ > , aA 
ἢ; υσσῶσαν αὐτὴν οὐδ᾽ ἐπήβολον φρενῶν. 
Ἧ 
Hi φιλεῖ δ᾽ ὁ θυμὸς πρόσθεν ἡρῆσθαι κλοπεὺς 
| τῶν μηδὲν ὀρθῶς ἐν σκότῳ τεχνωμένων. 
495 μισῶ γε μέντοι χώταν ἐν κακοῖσί τις 
ἁλοὺς ἔπειτα τοῦτο καλλύνειν θέλῃ. 








| ANTITONH. 
mv 1 θέλεις τι μεῖζον ἣ κατακτεῖναί μ᾽ ἑλών ; 








ANTIGONE. 


Cu. The maid shows herself passionate child of 
4 passionate sire, and knows not how to bend before 
a troubles. | 
Cr. Yet I would have thee know that o’er-stub- ! 
born spirits are most often humbled; ’tis the 
stiffest iron, baked to hardness in the fire, that 
a thou shalt oftenest see snapped and shivered; and | 
I have known horses that show temper brought to 





order by a little curb; there is no room for pride, 
when thou art thy neighbor’s slave.—This girl 


q was already versed in insolence when she trans- Ry 
q gressed the laws that had been set forth; and, that 
done, lo, a second insult,—to vaunt of ae and 
exult in her deed. 

4 Now verily I am no man, she is the man, if this 
4 victory shall rest with her, and bring no penalty. 
No! be she sister’s child, or nearer to me in blood 
than any that worships Zeus at the altar of our 
house,—she and her kinsfolk shall not avoid a 
doom most dire; for indeed I charge that other 
with a like snare in the plotting of this burial. 

And summon her—for I saw her e’en now with- 
in,—raving, and not mistress of her wits. So oft, 
before the deed, the mind stands self-convicted in 
its treason, when folks are plotting mischief in the 
dark. But verily this, too, is hateful,—when one- 2 
who hath been caught in wickedness then seeks to ge 


make the crime a glory. 
43 




















ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
2 8 902 a> ¥ 9 ον 
ἐγὼ μὲν οὐδέν: τοῦτ᾽ ἔχων ἅπαντ᾽ ἔχω. 
ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ. 
τί δῆτα μέλλεις ; ὡς ἐμοὶ τῶν σῶν λόγων 
9 ᾿ 9 2 3 3 iy 4 
500 ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν, μηδ᾽ ἀρεσθείη ποτέ, 
9 Q Α ᾿Ὶ 3. 9 ὃ 4 > »¥ 
οὕτω δὲ καὶ σοὶ tap’ ἀφανδάνοντ᾽ ἔφν. 
’, , 2, > ἃ > ’ 
καίτοι πόθεν κλέος γ᾽ ἂν εὐκλεέστερον 
4 a Ν > 4 > 4 
κατέσχον ἢ τὸν αὐτάδελφον ἐν τάφῳ 
τιθεῖσα ; τούτοις τοῦτο πᾶσιν ἁνδάνειν : 
505 λέγοιτ᾽ ἄν, εἰ μὴ γλῶσσαν ἐγκλύοι φόβος. 
[ἀλλ᾽ ἡ τυραννὶς πολλά τ᾽ ἀλλ᾽ εὐδαιμονεῖ, 
κάξεστιν αὐτῇ δρᾶν λέγειν θ᾽ ἃ βούλεται. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
No A 4 Lol ’ ε a 
ov’ τοῦτο μούνη τῶνδε Καδμείων ὁρᾷς. 
ΑΝΤΙΓΌΝΗ. 
ea = \ δ᾽ ε aN , 
ὁρῶσι χοὖτοι, σοὶ δ᾽ ὑπίλλουσιν στόμα. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
510 σὺ δ᾽ οὐκ ἐπαιδεῖ, τῶνδε χωρὶς εἰ φρονεῖς ; 
ΑΝΤΙΓΌΝΗ. 
SQa A > A AY e 4 a 
οὐδὲν yap αἰσχρὸν τοὺς ὁμοσπλάγχνους σέβειν. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 


ν ° 
οὔκουν ὅμαιμος χὠ καταντίον θανών; 


ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ. 
9 > A \ > A 4 
Οομαιμος EK μιᾶς TE Και Ταύτου TAT, Pos. 


KPEQN. 
πῶς δῆτ᾽ ἐκείνῳ δυσσεβῆ τιμᾷς χάριν ; 





ANTIGONE. 


Wouldst thou do more than take and slay 


No more, indeed; having that, I have all. 
Why then dost thou delay? In thy dis- 
course there is nought that pleases me,—never 
may there be!—and so my words must needs be 
unpleasing to thee. And yet, for glory — whence 


could I have won a nobler, than by giving burial 


to mine own brother? All here would own that 
they thought it well, were not their lips sealed by 
fear. But royaliy, blest in so much besides, hath 
the power to do and say what it will. 

Cr. Thou differest from all these Thebans in 
that view. 

An. These also share it; but they curb their 
tongues for thee. 

Cr. And art thou not ashamed te act apart 
from them? 

An. No; there is nothing shameful in piety to 
a brother. 

Cr. Was it not a brother, too, that died in the 
opposite cause? 

An. Brother by the same mother and the same 
sire. 

Cr. Why, then, dost thou render a grace that 
is impious in his sight? 

45 





ANTITONH. 


ANTITONH. 
515 οὐ μαρτυρήσει ταῦθ᾽ ὁ κατθανὼν νέκυς. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 

εἴ τοί σφε τιμᾷς ἐξ ἴσον τῷ δυσσεβεῖ. 
ANTITONH. 

ov γάρ τι δοῦλος, ἀλλ᾽ ἀδελφὸς wero. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
πορθῶν δὲ τήνδε γῆν" ὁ δ᾽ ἀντιστὰς ὕπερ. 


ANTITONH. 
ὅμως ὃ γ᾽ “Awdys τοὺς νόμους ἴσους ποθεῖ. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
520 ἀλλ᾽ οὐχ ὁ χρηστὸς τῷ κακῷ λαχεῖν ἴσος. 
ANTITONH. 
tis olde εἰ κάτωθεν εὐαγῆ τάδε; 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
οὔτοι ποθ᾽ οὗχθρός, οὐδ᾽ ὅταν θάνῃ, φίλος. 
| ΑΝΤΙΓΌΝΗ, 
οὕτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
κάτω νυν ἐλθοῦσ᾽, εἰ φιλητέον, φίλει 
525 κείνους" ἐμοῦ δὲ ζῶντος οὐκ ἄρξει γυνή. 


ΕἸἼΡΊΤΗ Scene. Creon. ΑΝΤΙΘΟΝΕ. ΙΒΜΕΝῈ. Two ATTENDANTS. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἦδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη, 
φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ λειβομένη" 
νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν 





ANTIGONE., 


An. The dead man will not say that he so 
deems it. 

Cr. Yea, if thou makest him but equal in 
honor with the wicked. 

An. It was his brother, not his slave, that 
perished. 

Cr. Wasting this land; while 4e fell as its 
champion. 

An. Nevertheless, Hades desires these rites. 

Cr. But the good desires not a like portion with 
the evil. 

An. Who knows but this seems blameless in 
the world below? 

Cr. A foe is never a friend — not even in death. 

An. ’Tis not my nature to join in hating, but in 
loving. 

Cr. Pass, then, to the world of the dead, and, | 
if thou must needs love, love them. While I live off 


— 


no woman shall rule me. Meese, 
nas srhpesintninenanenesn aE my 


FIFTH SCENE. CREON. ANTIGONE. ISMENE. Two ATTEND- 
ANTS. 


Enter ISMENE from the house, led in by two attendants. 


Cu. Lo, yonder Ismene comes forth, shedding 


such tears as fond sisters weep; a cloud upon her 
47 

















ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


«. 3 4 
ῥέθος αἰσχύνει, 
’ > 2A id 
530 τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
σὺ δ᾽, ἡ κατ᾽ οἴκους ὡς ἔχιδν᾽ ὑφειμένη, 
’ 4, 9 967 2Q>3 9 4 
λήθουσά μ᾽ ἐξέπινες, οὐδ᾽ ἐμάνθανον 
, 93 »ν 9 4 4 
τρέφων δύ᾽ ara κἀπαναστάσεις θρόνων, 
, 9 3 Q , Ἁ \ aA Aa 4, 
φέρ᾽, εἰπὲ δή μοι, καὶ σὺ τοῦδε τοῦ τάφου 
535 φήσεις μετασχεῖν, ἣ ᾿ξομεῖ τὸ μὴ εἰδέναι ; 


ΙΣΜΗΝΗ. 





δέδρακα τοὔργον, εἴπερ HO ὁμορροθεῖ, 
καὶ ξυμμετίσχω καὶ φέρω τῆς αἰτίας. 


ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ. 





9 3 9 9» A , 9 ε 4 9 > Q 
ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἐάσει τοῦτό γ᾽ ἡ δίκη σ᾽, ἐπεὶ 
¥ 3 9 , ¥ 9 > A 9 , 

ovr ἠθέλησας, οὔτ᾽ ἐγὼ ᾿κοινωσάμην. 





ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 
9 > 95 Lal) A La] > 9 , 

540 ἀλλ᾽ ἐν κακοῖς τοῖς σοῖσιν οὐκ αἰσχύνομαι 

ξύμπλουν ἐμαυτὴν τοῦ πάθους ποιουμένη. 


ANTITONH. 





ὧν τοὔργον, Αιδης χοὶ κάτω ξυνίστορες" 
λόγοις δ᾽ ἐγὼ φιλοῦσαν οὐ στέργω φίλην. 





ISMHNH. 


μήτοι, κασιγνήτη, μ᾽ ἀτιμάσῃς TO μὴ οὐ 
645 θανεῖν τε σὺν σοὶ τὸν θανόντα θ᾽ ἁγνίσαι. 





ANTIFONH. 
μή μοι θάνῃς σὺ κοινά, μηδ᾽ ἃ μὴ *Ovyes 
ποιοῦ σεαυτῆς" ἀρκέσω θνήσκουσ᾽ ἐγώ. 


ANTIGONE. 


brow casts its shadow over her darkly-flushing face, 
and breaks in rain on her fair cheek. 

Cr. And thou, who, lurking like a viper in my 
house, wast secretly draining my life-blood, while I 
knew not that I was nurturing two pests, to rise 


against my throne—come, tell me now, wilt thou 


also confess thy part in this burial, or wilt thou 


forswear all knowledge of it? 

Is. I have done the deed—if she allows my 
claim,—and share the burden of the charge. 

An. Nay, justice will not suffer thee to do that: 
thou didst not consent to the deed, nor did I give 
thee part in it. 

Is. But, now that ills beset thee, I ar: not 
ashamed to sail the sea of trouble at thy side. 

An. Whose was the deed, Hades and the dead 
are witnesses: a friend in words is not the friend 
that I love. 

Is. Nay, sister, reject me not, but let me die 
with thee, and duly hono. the dead. 

An. Share not thou my death, nor claim deeds 
to which thou hast not put thy hand: my death 
will suffice. | 


Is. And what life is dear to me, bereft of thee? 
49 

















ANTITONH. 
13MHNH. 
καὶ τίς βίος μοι σοῦ λελειμμένῃ φίλος; 
ANTITONH. 
Kpéovr’ ἐρώτα" τοῦδε yap σὺ κηδεμών. 
ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 
sori ταῦτ᾽ ἀνιᾷς μ᾽ οὐδὲν ὠφελουμένη ; 
ANTITONH. 
ἀλγοῦσα μὲν δῆτ᾽, εἰ γέλωτ᾽ ἐν σοὶ γελῶ. 
13MHNH. 
. τί δῆτ᾽ ἂν ἀλλὰ viv σ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ὠφελοῖμ᾽ ἐγώ; 
ANTITONH. 
σῶσον σεαυτήν" ov φθονῶ σ᾽ ὑπεκφυγεῖν. 


IZMHNH. 
¥ 7) 9 , A A , 
οἴμοι τάλαινα, κἀμπλάκω τοῦ σοῦ μόρου; 


ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ. 
555 σὺ μὲν γὰρ εἵλου ζῆν, ἐγὼ δὲ κατθανεῖν. 


ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 
GAN’ οὐκ ἐπ᾽ ἀρρήτοις γε τοῖς ἐμοῖς λόγοις. 


ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ. 


καλῶς σὺ μὲν σοί, τοῖς δ᾽ ἐγὼ ᾿δόκουν φρονεῖν. 


ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 
καὶ μὴν ἴση νῷν ἐστιν ἡ ᾿ξαμαρτία. 
ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ. 
θάρσει" σὺ μὲν ζῇς, ἡ δ᾽ ἐμὴ ψυχὴ πάλαι 
560 τέθνηκεν, στε τοῖς θανοῦσιν ὠφελεῖν. 















ANTIGONE. 


An. Ask Creon; all thy care is for him. 
Is. Why wex me thus, when it avails thee 
nought? 

An. Indeed, if I mock, ‘tis with pain that I 
mock thee. 

Is. Tell me,—how can I serve thee, even now? 

An. Save thyself: I grudge not thy escape. 

Is. Ah, woe is me! And shall I have no share 
in thy fate? 

An. Thy choice was to live; mine, to die. 

Is, At least thy.choice was not made without 
my protest. 

An. One-world-approved thy wisdom ; another, 
mine. ie 
Is. Howbeit, the offence is the same for both 
of us. 

An. Be of good cheer; thou livest; but my life 
hath long been given to death, that so I might serve 
thedead. Ὁ 


Cr. Lo, one of these maidens hath newly shown 
herself foolish, as the other hath been since her life 
began. 


st 








ΣΟΦΟΚΛΈΟΥΣ 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
τὼ παῖδέ φημι τώδε τὴν μὲν ἀρτίως 


ἄνουν πεφάνθαι, τὴν δ᾽ ad’ οὗ τὰ πρῶτ᾽ ἔφυ. 


IZMHNH. 







οὐ γάρ ποτ᾽, ὦναξ, οὐδ᾽ ὃς ἂν βλάστῃ μένει 
νοῦς τοῖς κακῶς πράσσουσιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐξίσταται. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 

δθὅ σοὶ γοῦν, ὅθ᾽ εἵλου σὺν κακοῖς πράσσειν κακά, 


ἸΣΜΉΝΗ, 
τί γὰρ μόνῃ μοι τῆσδ᾽ ἄτερ βιώσιμον ; 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 


ἀλλ᾽ ἦδε μῶτοι μὴ λέγ᾽ οὐ γὰρ ἔστ᾽ Er. 
ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 

ἀλλὰ κτενεῖς νυμφεῖα τοῦ σαντοῦ τέκνου ; 
ΚΡΈΩΝ. 

> 4 Δ 9 | 8 4 

ἀρώσιμοι yap χάτέρων εἰσὶν γύαι. 
ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 

570 οὐχ ὥς γ᾽ ἐκείνῳ τῇδέ τ᾽ ἦν ἡρμοσμένα. 

ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 

κακὰς ἐγὼ γυναῖκας υἱέσι στυγῶ." 
ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 

ὦ φίλταθ᾽ Αἵμων, ὥς σ᾽ ἀτιμάζει πατήρ. 
ΚΡΈΩΝ. 

ἄγαν γε λυπεῖς καὶ σὺ καὶ τὸ σὸν λέχος. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 

ἢ γὰρ στερήσεις τῆσδε τὸν σαντοῦ γόνον ; 

. 








ANTIGONE. 


Is. Yea, O King, such reason as nature may 
have given abides not with the unfortunate, but 
goes astray. 

Cr. Thine did, when thou chosest vile deeds 
with the vile. 

Is. What. life could I endure, without her 
presence ? 

Cr. Nay, speak not of her ‘presence’; she lives 
no more. 

Is. But wilt thou slay the betrothed of thine 
own son? . 

Cr. Nay, there are other fields for him to plough. 

Is. But there can never be such love as bound 
him to her. 

Cr. I like not an evil wife for my son. 

An. Haemon, beloved! How thy father wrongs 
thee! 

Cr. Enough, enough of thee and of thy mar- 
riage | 

Cu. Wilt thou indeed rob thy son of this 
maiden ? 


Cr. ‘Tis Death that shall stay these bridals for 
me. 


Cu. ’Tis determined, it seems, that she shall 
die. 


53 . 








ANTITONH. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
δὴδ᾽΄Αιδης ὁ παύσῳων τούσδε τοὺς γάμους ἐμοί. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ, 





δέδογμέν᾽, ὡς ἔοικε, τήνδε κατθανεῖν. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
καὶ ool γὲ κἀμοί. μὴ τριβὰς ἔτ᾽, ἀλλά νιν 
κομίζετ᾽ εἴσω, δμῶες" ἐκ δὲ τοῦδε χρὴ 
γυναῖκας εἶναι τάσδε μηδ᾽ ἀνειμένας. 

δ80 φεύγουσι γάρ τοι χοὶ θρασεῖς, ὅταν πέλας 
ἤδη τὸν “Avdnv εἰσορῶσι τοῦ βίου. 














Στάσιμον PB’. 





ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
Στροφὴ «4, 
εὐδαίμονες οἷσι κακῶν ἄγευστος αἰών. 
οἷς γὰρ ἂν σεισθῇ θεόθεν δόμος, ἄτας 
586 οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ἕρπον " 
ὅμοιον ὥστε ποντίαις οἶδμα δυσπνόοις ὅταν 
Θρήσσαισιν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμῃ πνοαῖς, 
590 κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν κελαινὰν θῖνα καὶ 
δυσάνεμον, στόνῳ βρέμουσι δ᾽ ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί. 


᾿Αντιστροφὴ d. 
ἀρχαῖα τὰ Λαβδακιδᾷν οἴκων ὁρῶμαι 
δθὅ πήματα φθιτῶν ἐπὶ πήμασι πίπτοντ᾽, 
οὐδ᾽ ἀπαλλάσσει γενεὰν γένος, ἀλλ᾽ ἐρείπει 
θεῶν τις, οὐδ᾽ ἔχει λύσιν. γῦν γὰρ ἐσχάτας ὑπὲρ 
600 ῥίζας ἐτέτατο φάος ἐν Οἰδίπου δόμοις, 
































ANTIGONE. 


Cr. Determined, yes, for thee and for me.—(7o 
the two Attendants. No more delay—servauts, take 
them within! Henceforth they must be women, 
and. not: range at large; for verily even the bold 
seek to fly when they see Death now closing on 
their life. 


Exeunt Attendants, guarding ANTIGONE and ISMENE.—~-CREON 
remains. 

Cu. Blest are they whose days have not tasted 
of evil. For when a house hath once been shaken 
from heaven, there the curse fails nevermore, pass- 
ing from life to life of the race; even as, when the 


surge is driven. over the darkness of the deep by 
the fierce breath of Thracian sea-winds, it rolls up 


the black sand from the depths, and’ there is a 
sullen roar from wind-vexed headlands that front 
the blows of the storm. 

I see that from olden time the sorrows in the 
house of the Labdacidae are heaped upon the sor- 
rows of the dead; and generation is not freed by 
generation, but some god strikes them down, and 
the race hath no deliverance. 

For now that hope of which the light had been 


spread above the last root of the house of Oedipus, 
55 














ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


κατ᾽ αὖ νιν φοινία θεῷν τῶν νερτέρων 
9 A A 4 9 ¥ \ A 9 4 
dua κοπὶς λόγου τ’ ἄνοια καὶ φρενῶν ἐρινύς. 


Κονις 





Στροφὴ β΄. 


6065 τεάν, Ζεῦ, δύνασὶιν τίς ἀνδρῶν ὑπερβασία κατάσχοι, 

Ἁ A 9 e A θ᾽ ε AY ¥ 9 

τὰν οὔθ᾽ ὕπνος αἱρεῖ ποθ᾽ ὁ πανταγρεὺς οὔτ 

bg Sy ἀκάματοι θέοντες μῆνες, ἀγήρως δὲ χρόνῳ 
210 δυνάστας κατέχεις Ὀλύμπου μαρμαρόεσσαν αἴγλαν 

τό 7 ἔπειτα καὶ τὸ μέλλον 


καὶ τὸ πρὶν ἐπαρκέσει ἐξ 
, “8 9 δὲ 9 Φηηι 
νόμος ὅδ᾽ - οὐδὲν ἕρπει.- ( 
2 : A > as pee. Ψ 
παάμπὸ Ne ‘ θνατῶν βιότῳ πλημμελὲ ἐκτὸς τας, 
Wa yh 7 Ὁ ᾿Αντιστροφὴ β΄. 


815 a γὰρ δὴ πολύπλαγκτος ἐλπὶς πολλοῖς μὲν ὄνησις 
ἀνδρῶν, 
πολλοῖς δ᾽ ἀπάτα κουφονόων ἐρώτων "᾿ 
92. » 3 2QA 9 \ N A 4 
εἰδότι δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἕρπει, πρὶν πυρὶ θερμῷ πόδα τις 
4 v4 SQ ¥ Ν » , 
620 προσαύσῃ. σοφίᾳ γὰρ ἔκ του κλεινὸν ἔπος πέφανται" 
τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ᾽ ἐσθλὸν 
AQ ¥ 9 2 b 
τῷδ᾽ ἔμμεν ὅτῳ φρένας 
θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς arav. 
’ 2 s\ 2 , > Q Ὁ 
625 πράσσει «δ᾽ ὀλίγιστον χρόνον ἐκτὸς ἄτας. 


ὅδε μὴν Αἵμων, παίδων τῶν σῶν 
νέατον γέννημ᾽ " ἄρ᾽ ἀχνύμενος 
τῆς μελλογάμου τάλιδος ἥκει 
μόρον ᾿Αντιγόνης, 

680 ἀπάτας λεχέων ὑπεραλγῶν ; 


ou, 


σις 








ANTIGONE. 


— that hope in turn is brought low—by the blood- 
stained dust due to the gods infernal, and by folly 
in speech, and frenzy at the heart. 

Thy power, O Zeus, what human trespass can 
limit? That power which neither Sleep, the all- 
ensnaring, nor the untiring months of the gods 
can master; but thou, a ruler to whom time brings 
not old age, dwellest in the dazzling splendor of 
Olympus. 

And through the future, near and far, as through 
the past, shall this law hold good: Nothing that is 
vast enters into the life of mortals without a curse. 

For that hope whose wanderings are so wide is 
to many men a comfort, but to many a false lure of 
giddy desires; and the disappointment comes on 
one who knoweth not till he burn his foot against 
the hot fire. 

For with wisdom hath some one given forth the 
famous saying, that evil seems good, soon or late, 
to him whose mind the god draws to mischief; and 
but for the briefest space doth he fare free of woe. 

But lo, Haemon, the last of thy sons ;— comes 
he grieving for the doom of his promised bride, 
Antigone, and bitter for the baffled hope of his 


marriage? 
57 





ANTITONH. 


Srxtn Scene. Creon. Two Servants. Harmon. 


Ἐπεισόδιον γ΄. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
’ 9 ϑ , ε , 
τάχ᾽ εἰσόμεσθα μάντεων ὑπέρτερον. 
ὦ παῖ, τελείαν ψῆφονιᾶρα μὴ, κλύων 
τῆς μελλονύμφου πατρὶ θυμαίνων πάρει; 
ἢ σοὶ μὲν ἡμεῖς πανταχῇ δρῶντες φίλοι; 
AIMON. 
635 πάτερ, σός εἶμι, Kal σύ por γνώμας ἔχων' 
\ 9 θ Le) hy ¥ > 3492 ? 
χρηστὰς ἀπορθοῖς, αἷς ἔγωγ᾽ ἐφέψομαι. 
9 ᾿Ὶ A 3 Ἁ 9 add » Ud 
ἐμοὶ yap οὐδεὶς ἀξίως ἔσται γάμος 
μείζων φέρεσθαι σοῦ καλῶς ἡγουμένου. 





ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 

οὕτω γάρ, ὦ παῖ, χρὴ διὰ στέρνων ἔχειν, 
a ’ ld > ε , 

640 γνώμης πατρῴας πάντ᾽ ὄπισθεν ἑστάναι. 

τούτου γὰρ οὕνεκ᾽ ἄνδρες εὔχονται γονὰς 
, 4 » 
κατηκόους φύσαντες ἐν δόμοις ἔχειν, 
ὡς καὶ τὸν ἐχθρὸν ἀνταμύνωνται κακοῖς, 
» XN » A > ¥ ld 

καὶ τὸν φίλον τιμῶσιν ἐξ ἴσου πατρί. 

645 ὅστις δ᾽ ἀνωφέλητα φιτύει τέκνα, 
τί τόνδ᾽ ἂν εἴποις ἄλλο πλὴν αὑτῷ πόνους 

A AY δ A A l4 

φῦσαι, πολὺν δὲ τοῖσιν ἐχθροῖσιν γέλων; 
μή νύν ποτ᾽, ὦ παῖ. τὰς φρένας γ᾽ ὑφ᾽ ΩΝ 
γυναικὸς οὕνεκ᾽ ἐκβάλῃς, εἰδὼς ὅτι 

850 ψυχρὸν παραγκάλισμα τοῦτο γίγνεται, 
γυνὴ κακὴ ξύνευνος ἐν δόμοις. τί γὰρ 
γένοιτ᾽ ἂν ἕλκος μεῖζον ἢ ἢ φίλος κακός; 
ἀλλὰ πτύσας ὡσεί τε δυσμενῆ. μέθες 


See 











ANTIGONE. 


S1xtH SCENE. CREON. ΤΟ SERVANTS. HAEMON. 


Enter HAEMON. 


Cr. We shall know soon, better than seers 
could tell us. — My son, hearing the fixed doom of 
thy betrothed, art thou come in rage against thy 
father? Or have I thy good will, act how I may? 

Har. Father, I am thine; and thou, in thy 
wisdom, tracest for me rules which I shall follow. 
No marriage shall be deemed by me a greater gain ( 
than thy good guidance. 

Cr. Yea, this, my son, should be thy heart’s 
fixed law,—in all things to obey thy father’s will. 
Tis for this that men pray to see dutiful children 
grow up around them in their homes, —that such ἃ 
may requite their father’s foe with evil, and honor, J 
as their father doth, his friend. But he who begets 
unprofitable children — what shall we say that he 
hath sown, but troubles for himself, and much 
triumph for his foes? Then do not thou, my son, 
at pleasure’s beck, dethrone thy reason for a woman’s 

9 sake; knowing that this is a joy that soon grows 
cold in clasping arms,—an evil woman to share 
thy bed and thy home. For what wound could 
strike deeper than a false friend? Nay, with loath- 
ing, and as if she were thine enemy, let this girl go 
to find a husband in the house of Hades. For 


since I have taken. her, alone of all the city, in open 
59 


























ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


τὴν παῖδ᾽ ἐν “Awou τήνδε νυμφεύειν τινί. 
655 ἐπεὶ γὰρ αὐτὴν εἷλον ἐμφανῶς ἐγὼ 

πόλεως ἀπιστήσασαν ἐκ πάσης μόνην, 

ψευδῆ γ᾽ ἐμαυτὸν οὐ καταστήσω πόλει, 

9 A A A A 9 > 4 , 

ἀλλὰ κτενῶς πρὸς ταῦτ᾽ ἐφυμνείτω Δία 

ξύναιμον" εἰ γὰρ δὴ τά γ᾽ ἐγγενῆ φύσει 
660 ἄκοσμα θρέψω, κάρτα τοὺς ἔξω γένους " 

ἐν τοῖς γὰρ οἰκείοισιν ὅστις ἔστ᾽ ἀνὴρ 

χρηστός, φανεῖται κἀν πόλει δίκαιος ὦν. 

9 ϑ ε \ aA ’ 4 

ὅστις δ᾽ ὑπερβὰς 7 νόμους βιάζεται 

ἢ τοὐπιτάσσειν τοῖς κρατύνουσιν νοεῖ, 

9 » > 9 ,’ A 9 aA aA 
665 οὐκ ἔστ᾽ ἐπαίνου τοῦτον ἐξ ἐμοῦ τυχεῖν. 

9 9 ἃ 4 4 A Q 4 

ἀλλ᾽ ὃν πόλις στήσειε, τοῦδε χρὴ κλύειν 

καὶ σμικρὰ καὶ δίκαια καὶ τἀναντία. 

‘ A LY Ὅν 3 A 
καὶ τοῦτον ἂν τὸν ἄνδρα θαρσοίην ἐγὼ 





καλῶς μὲν ἄρχειν, εὖ δ᾽ ἂν ἄρχεσθαι θέλειν, 


, ϑ 3 A 4 
670 δορός τ᾽ ἂν ἐν χειμῶνι προστεταγμένον 
pevew δίκαιον κἀγαθὸν παραστάτην. 
ἀναρχίας δὲ μεῖζον οὐκ ἔστιν κακόν " 

9 l4 > ¥ νῷ» 9 , 
αὕτη πόλεις τ᾽ ὄλλυσιν, ἦδ᾽ ἀναστάτους 
οἴκους τίθησιν, ἧδε συμμάχον δορὸς 

675 τροπὰς καταρρήγνυσι. τῶν δ᾽ ὀρθουμένων 

’ \ Q ’ ε , 
σῴζει τὰ πολλὰ σώμαθ' ἡ πειθαρχία. 
οὕτως ἀμυντέ᾽ ἐστὶ τοῖς κοσμουμένοις, 
κοὔτοι γυναικὸς οὐδαμῶς ἡσσητέα. 


A , ν A 4 9 >) > (of 
κρεῖσσον yap, εἴπερ δεῖ, πρὸς ἀνδρὸς ἐκπεσεῖν, 


680 κοὐκ ἂν γυναικῶν ἥσσονες καλοίμεθ᾽ ἄν. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 


ἡμῖν μέν, εἰ μὴ τῷ χρόνῳ κεκλέμμεθα, 
λέγειν φρονούντως ὧν λέγεις δοκεῖς πέρι. 










ANTIGONE. 


disobedience, I will not make myself a liar to my 
people — I will slay her. 

So let her appeal as she will to the majesty of 
kindred blood. If I am to nurture mine own 
kindred in naughtiness, needs must I bear with it 
in aliens. He who does his duty in his own house- _~ 
hold will be found righteous in the State also. But 


if any one transgresses, and does violence to the 


laws, or thinks to dictate to his rulers, such an one 
can win no praise from me. No, whomsoever the. 


HAV 


city may appoint, that man must be obeyed, in 


$ 


little things and great, in just things and unjust, 


and I should feel sure that one who thus obeys 7 


would be a good ruler no less than a good subject, 
and in the storm of spears would stand his ground “ 
where he was set, loyal and dauntless at ‘his com- 
rade’s side. 

But disobedience is the worst of evils. This it 
is that ruins cities; this makes homes desolate; by 
this, the ranks of allies are broken into headlong 
rout: but, of the lives whose course is fair, the 
greater part owes safety to obedience. Therefore 
we must support the cause of order, and in no wise 
suffer a woman to worst us. Better to fall from 


__agregt 


power, if we must, by a man’s hand; then we / 


should not be called weaker than a woman. 
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ANTITONH. 


AIMON. 
πάτερ, θεοὶ φύουσιν ἀνθρώποις φρένας, 
πάντων ὅσ᾽ ἔστι κτημάτων ὑπέρτατον. 
2 κ᾿ 3». \ 4 4 9 A 4 
685 ἐγὼ δ᾽ ὅπως σὺ μὴ λέγεις ὀρθῶς τάδε 
» 9 , 43 3 ld , 
οὔτ᾽ ἂν δυναίμην μήτ᾽ ἐπισταίμην λέγειν" 
γένοιτο pévrav χἀτέρῳ καλῶς ἔχον. 
.- σοὶ δ᾽ οὖν πέφυκα πάντα προσκοπεῖν ὅσα 
λέγει τις ἣ πράσσει τις ἣ ψέγειν ἔχει. 

690 τὸ γὰρ σὸν ὄμμα δεινὸν ἀνδρὶ δημότῃ 

λόγοις τοιούτοις, οἷς σὺ μὴ τέρψει κλύων " 
9 \ > 9 , ν “ @ 8 4, 4 

ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἀκούειν ἔσθ᾽ ὑπὸ σκότου τάδε, 

Ἁ “" 4 2 9 4 4 
τὴν παῖδα ταύτην of ὀδύρεται πόλις, 
πασῶν γυναικῶν ὡς ἀναξιωτάτη 

695 κάκιστ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ἔργων εὐκλεεστάτων φθέίνει, 

9 Ν ean > (ὃ 9 aA 

ἥτις τὸν αὑτῆς αὐτάδελφον ἐν φοναῖς 
πεπτῶτ᾽ ἄθαπτον μήθ᾽ ὑπ’ ὠμηστῶν κυνῶν 
¥ > s\2 , e 93 > A 

εἴασ᾽ ὀλέσθαι μήθ᾽ ὑπ᾽ οἰωνῶν twos: 
οὐχ ἧδε χρυσῆς ἀξία τιμῆς λαχεῖν; 

τοῦ τοιάδ᾽ ἐρεμνὴ σῖγ᾽ ἐπέρχεται φάτις. 
ἐμοὶ δὲ σοῦ πράσσοντος εὐτυχῶς, πάτερ, 
οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν κτῆμα τιμιώτερον. 
τί γὰρ πατρὸς θάλλοντος εὐκλείας τέκνοις 

ἊΝ A a 4 a , 
ἄγαλμα μεῖζον, ἣ τί πρὸς παίδων πατρί; 

705 μὴ νῦν ἕν ἦθος μοῦνον ἐν σαντῷ φύόρει, 
ὡς φὴς σύ, κοὐδὲν ἄλλο, τοῦτ᾽ ὀρθῶς ἔχειν. 
9 \ t a aA id P Lal 
ὅστις yap αὐτὸς 7 φρονεῖν μόνος δοκεῖ, 

ἣ γλῶσσαν, ἣν οὐκ ἄλλος, ἢ ψυχὴν ἔχειν, 
οὗτοι διαπτυχθέντες ὥφθησαν κενοί. 

710 ἀλλ᾽ ἄνδρα, κεῖ τις ἦ σοφός, τὸ pavOdvew 
᾿ , > 3 A IOAN Q . \ a ¥ 
πόλλ᾽ αἰσχρὸν οὐδὲν καὶ. τὸ μὴ. τείνειν ἄγαν. 
ὁρᾷς παρὰ ῥείθροισι χειμάρροις ὅσα 











ANTIGONE. 


Cu. To us, unless our years have stolen our wit 
thou seemest to say wisely what thou sayest. 

Har. Father, the gods implant reason in men, 
the highest of all things that we call our own. 
Not mine the skil!—far from me be the quest !— 
to say whereiii tiivu speakest not aright; and yet 
another man, too, might have some useful théught. 
At least, it is my natural office to watch, on thy 
behalf, all that men say, or do, or find to blame. 
For the dread of thy frown forbids the citizen to 
speak such words as would offend thine ear; but I 
can hear these murmurs in the dark, these moan- 
ings of the city for this maiden; ‘no woman,’ they 
say, ‘ever merited her doom less,—none ever was 
to die so shamefully for deeds so glorious as hers; 
who, when her own brother had fallen in bloody 
strite, would not leave him -unburied, to be de- 
voured by carrion dogs, or by any bird :—deserves 
not she the meed of golden honor?’ ὁ 

Such is the darkling rumor that,spreads in secret. 
For me, my father, no treasure is so precious as thy 


welfare. What, indeed, is a nobler ornament for 
children than a prospering sire’s fair fame, or for , 


sire than son’s? Wear not, then, one mood only 
in thyself; think not that thy word, and thine alone, 
must be right. For if any man thinks that he 
alone is wise, — that in speech, or in mind, ‘he hath 
no peer,—such a soul, when laid open, is ever 


found empty. : 
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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


δένδρων ὑπείκει, κλῶνας ws ἐκσῴζεται"' 
τὰ δ᾽ ἀντιτείνοντ᾽ αὐτόπρεμν᾽ ἀπόλλυται. 
715 αὕτως δὲ ναὸς ὅστις ἐγκρατῇ πόδα 
τείνας ὑπείκει μηδέν, ὑπτίοις κάτω 
στρέψας τὸ λοιπὸν σέλμασιν ναντίλλεται. 
ἀλλ᾽ εἶκε θυμοῦ καὶ μετάστασιν δίδου. 
γνώμη γὰρ εἴ τις κἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ νεωτέρου 
120 πρόσεστι, φήμ᾽ ἔγωγε πρεσβεύειν πολύ, 
φῦναι τὸν ἄνδρα πάντ᾽ ἐπιστήμης πλέων" 
> 3 A 4 A Q 4 ε 
εἰ δ᾽ οὖν, φιλεῖ γὰρ τοῦτο μὴ ταύτῃ ῥέπειν, 
\ A 4 a Q 4 
καὶ τῶν λεγόντων εὖ καλὸν τὸ μανθάνειν. 





ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
ἄναξ, σέ τ' εἰκός, εἴ τι καίριον λέγει, 
725 μαθεῖν, σέ τ᾽ αὖ τοῦδ᾽. εὖ γὰρ εἴρηται διπλῇ. 





; ΚΡΈΩΝ. 
οἱ τηλικοίδε καὶ διδαξόμεσθα δὴ 
φρονεῖν ὑπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς τηλικοῦδε τὴν φύσιν; 





AIMON. 
μηδὲν τὸ μὴ δίκαιον " εἰ δ᾽ ἐγὼ νέος, 
> Q a A Ἂν A 
οὐ τὸν χρόνον χρὴ μᾶλλον ἣ τἄργα σκοπεῖν, 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
730 ἔργον γάρ ἐστι τοὺς ἀκοσμοῦντας σέβειν; 





AIMON. 

οὐδ᾽ ἂν κελεύσαιμ᾽ εὐσεβεῖν εἰς τοὺς κακούς, 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 

οὐχ ἧδε γὰρ τοιᾷδ᾽ ἐπείληπται νόσῳ; 
AIMON. 

ov φησι Θήβης τῆσδ᾽ ὁμόπτολις λεώς. 














ANTIGONE, 


No, though a man be wise, ’tis no shame for him Ὶ 


to learn many things, and to bend in season. \ 
Seest thou, beside the wintry torrent’s course, how 
the trees that yield to it save every twig, while the _ 
stiff-necked perish root and branch? And even | 
thus he who keeps the sheet of his sail taut, and 
never slackens it, upsets his boat and finishes his 
voyage with keel uppermost. 

Nay, forego thy wrath; permit thyself to change. 
For if I, a younger man, may offer my thought, it 
were far best, I ween, that men should be all-wise 
by nature; but, otherwise — and oft the scale in- 
clines not so—’tis good also to learn from those 
who speak aright. 

Cu. Sire, tis meet that thou shouldest profit by 
his words, if he speaks aught in season, and thou, 
Haemon, by thy fail:er’s; for on both parts there 
hath been wise speech. 

Cr. Men of my age—are we indeed to be 
schooled, then, by men of his? . μ 

Hag. In nothing that is not right; but if I am 
young, thou shouldest look to my merits not to my 
years. 


Cr. Is it a merit to honor the unruly? jw 
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ANTITONH. 


πόλις yap ἡμῖν due χρὴ τάσσειν ἐρεῖ; 
ΔΑΊΜΩΝ. 
785 ὁρᾷς τόδ᾽ ὡς εἴρηκας ὡς ἄγαν νέος ; 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
ἄλλῳ γὰρ i "pol χρή με τῆσδ᾽ ἄρχειν χθονός; 


AIMAN. | 
πόλις yap οὐκ ἔσθ᾽ ἥτις ἀνδρός ἐσθ᾽ ἑνός. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
> A A ε ’ ’ 
οὐ τοῦ κρατοῦντος ἡ πόλις νομίζεται ; 


ἣ 
ΑΙΜΩΝ. 


καλῶς ἐρήμης γ᾽ ἂν σὺ γῆς ἄρχοις μόνος. 

ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
740 ὅδ᾽, ὡς ἔοικε, τῇ γυναικὶ συμμαχεῖ. 

AIMON. 

εἴπερ γυνὴ σύ" σοῦ yap οὖν προκήδομαι. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 

ὦ παγκάκιστε, διὰ δίκης ἰὼν πατρί. 
AIMON. 

οὐ yap δίκαιά σ᾽ ἐξαμαρτάνονθ᾽ ὁρῶ. 
ΚΡΈΩΝ. 

ἁμαρτάνω γὰρ τὰς ἐμὰς ἀρχὰς σέβων; 


AIMON. 
745 οὐ γὰρ σέβεις, τιμάς ye τὰς θεῶν πατῶν. 





ANTIGONE, 


Hag. I could wish no one to show respect for 
evil-doers. 

Cr. Then is not she tainted with that malady? 

Hag. Our Theban folk, with one voice, denies it. ° 

Cr. Shall Thebes prescribe to me how I must 
rule? 

Har. See, there thou hast spoken like a youth 
indeed. 

Cr. Am Itorule this land by other judgment 
than mine own? 

Har. That is no city, which belongs to one man. 

Cr. Is not the city held to be the ruler’s? 

Hart. Thou wouldst make a good monarch of 
a desert. 

Cr. This boy, it seems, is the woman’s cham- 
pion. 


Hag. If thou art a woman; indeed, my care is 


for thee. 
“ Cr. Shameless, at open feud with thy father | 
Har. Nay, I see thee offending against justice. 
Cr. Do I offend, when I respect mine own pre- 


rogatives ? 
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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
ὦ μιαρὸν ἦθος καὶ γυναικὸς ὕστερον. 


AIMON. 


ov τἂν ἕλοις ἥσσω ye τῶν αἰσχρῶν ἐμέ. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
ὁ γοῦν λόγος σοι πᾶς ὑπὲρ κείνης ὅδε. 
AIMON, 
καὶ σοῦ ye κἀμοῦ καὶ θεῶν τῶν νερτέρων. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
7150 ταύτην rx οὐκ ἔσθ᾽ ὡς ἔτι ζῶσαν γαμεῖς. 
‘ AIMON. 
no οὖν θανεῖται καὶ θανοῦσ᾽ ὀλεῖ τινα. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
ἢ κἀπαπειλῶν ὧδ᾽ ἐπεξέρχει θρασύς ; 
AIMON. 
tis δ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἀπειλὴ πρὸς κενὰς γνώμας λέγειν ; 





ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
κλαίων φρενώσεις, ὧν φρενῶν αὐτὸς κενός. 





AIMON, 
757 βούλει λέγειν τι καὶ λέγων μηδὲν κλύειν. 


ΚΡΈΩΝ, 
756 γυναικὸς ὧν δούλευμα, μὴ κώτιλλέ με. 





AIMON. 
755 εἰ μὴ πατὴρ ἦσθ᾽, εἶπον dv σ᾽ οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν. 














ANTIGONE. 


Hag. Thou dost not respect them, when thou 
tramplest on the gods’ honors. 


Cr. O dastard nature, yielding place to a 


woman ! 


Haz. Thou wilt never find me yield to baseness;—~ 


Cr. All thy words, at least, plead for that girl. 

Har. And for thee, and for me, and for the 
gods below. 

Cr. Thou canst never marry her, on this side 
the grave. 

Hae. Then she must die, and in death de- 
stroy another. 

Cr. How! doth thy boldness run to open 
threats ? 

Har. What threat is it, to combat vain re- 
solves? 

Cr. Thou woman’s slave, use not wheedling 
speech with me. 

Har. Wert thou not my father, I would have. 
called thee unwise. 

Cr. Thou shalt rue thy witless teaching of 


wisdom, 
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ores 7 














ANTITONH. 


KPEON. 
ἄληθες ; ἀλλ᾽ οὐ τόνδ᾽ Ὄλυμπον, tof ὅτι, 
, 9 Ν , dev , 9. 92 
χαίρων ἐπὶ ψόγοισι δεννάσεις ἐμέ. 
¥ 4 a e 7 ν᾿ 9 3 » 
760 ἄγαγε TO μισος, ὡς KAT OMpaT auUTiKa 
, v4 ’ A e 
παρόντι θνήσκῃ πλησία τῷ νυμφίῳ. 
AIMON. 
ov δῆτ᾽ ἔμοιγε, τοῦτο μὴ δόξῃς ποτέ, 
¥ 9Q>2 9 A 4 4 9 9 A 
οὔθ᾽ ἠδ᾽ ὀλεῖται πλησία, σύ τ᾽ οὐδαμὰ 
τοὐμὸν προσόψει κρᾶτ᾽ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς ὁρῶν, 
166 ὡς τοῖς θέλουσι τῶν φίλων μαίνῃ ξυνών. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
ἁνήρ, ἄναξ, βέβηκεν ἐξ ὀργῆς ταχύς" 
νοῦς δ᾽ ἐστὶ τηλικοῦτος ἀλγήσας βαρύς. 


ΚΡΕΩΝ. 
9 97 


Sparta, φρονείτω μεῖζον ἣ κατ᾽ ἄνδρ᾽ ἰών" 
τὰ δ' οὖν κόρα τάδ᾽ οὐκ ἀπαλλάξει μόρου. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 


710 ἄμφω γὰρ αὐτὰ καὶ κατακτεῖναι νοεῖς ; 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
οὐ τήν γε μὴ θυγοῦσαν" εὖ γὰρ οὖν λέγεις. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
μόρῳ δὲ ποίῳ καί σφε βουλεύει “κτανεῖν ; 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
ἄγων ἔρημος ἔνθ᾽ ἂν ἦ βροτῶν στίβος 
κρύψω πετρῃώδει ζῶσαν ἐν κατώρυχι, 
715 φορβῆς τοσοῦτον ὡς ἄγος μόνον προθείς, 











ANTIGONE- 


Har. Thou wouldst speak, and then hear no 
reply? 

Cr. Sayest thou so? Now, by the heaven above 
us—be sure of it—thou shalt smart for taunting 
me in this opprobrious strain. Bring forth that 
hated thing, that she may die forthwith in his 
presence—before his eyes—at her bridegroom’s 
side | 

Hag. No, not at my side—never think ‘i#— 
shall she perish; nor shalt thou ever set eyes more 
upon my face: —rave, then, with such friends as 
can endure thee. . Exit HAEMON. 

Cu. The man is gone, O King, in angry haste ; 
a youthful mind, when stung, is fierce. 


Cr. Let him do, or dream more than man— 


good speed to him !— But he shall not save these 


two girls from their doom. 

Cu. Dost thou, indeed, purpose to slay both? 

Cr. Not her whose hands are pure: thou say- 
est well. 

Cu. And by what doom mean’st thou to slay 
the other? 

Cr. I will take her where the path is loneliest, 


and hide her, living, in a rocky vault, with so much 
71 








SOSOKAEOYS 


9 , a 8 6 4 , 
ὅπως μίασμα πᾶσ᾽ ὑπεκφύγῃ πόλις. 
κἀκεῖ τὸν “Avdnv, ὃν μόνον σέβει θεῶν, 
αἰτουμένη που τεύξεται τὸ μὴ θανεῖν, 
aA 4 A 9 \ A 9 
ἢ γνώσεται γοῦν ἀλλὰ τηνικαῦθ᾽, ὅτι 
780 πόνος περισσός ἐστι τἀν ἵΑιδου σέβειν. 


Στάσιμον γ΄. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 


¥ > 4 4 ν a > 4 , 
Ερως ἀνίκατε μάχαν, "Epus ὃς ἐν κτήμασι πίπτεις, 
ὃς ἐν μαλακαῖς παρειαῖς νεάνιδος ἐννυχεύεις " 
bend > ¢€ 4 ¥ > 9 ’ > A 
785 φοιτᾷς δ᾽ ὑπερπόντιος ἔν τ᾽ ἀγρονόμοις αὐλαῖς, 
ld 3 ¥ > 93 4, ,’ 9 N 
καί σ᾽ ovr ἀθανάτων φύξιμος οὐδεὶς 
190 οὔθ᾽ ἁμερίων σέ γ᾽ ἀνθρώπων, ὁ δ᾽ ἔχων μέμηνεν. 


᾿Αντιστροφή. 
σὺ καὶ δικαίων ἀδίκους φρένας παρασπᾷς ἐπὶ λώβᾳ, 
σὺ καὶ τόδε νεῖκος ἀνδρῶν ξύνᾳιμον ἔχεις ταράξας " 
795 νικᾷ δ᾽ ἐναργὴς βλεφάρων ἵμερος εὐλέκτρου 
νύμφας, τῶν μεγάλων πάρεδρος ἐν ἀρχαῖς 
800 θεσμῶν " ἄμαχος γὰρ ἐμπαίζει θεὸς ᾿Αφροδίτα. 


νῦν δ᾽ ἤδη ᾿γὼ καὐτὸς θεσμῶν 
ἔξω. φέρομαι τάδ᾽ ὁρῶν, ἴσχειν δ᾽ 
οὐκέτι πηγὰς δύναμαι δακρύων, 
τὸν παγκοίτην ὅθ᾽ ὁρῶ θάλαμον 
τήνδ᾽ ᾿Αντιγόνην ἀνύτουσαν. 





ANTIGONE. 


food set forth as piety prescribes, that the city may 
avoid a public stain. And there, praying to Hades, 
the only god whom she worships, perchance she 
will obtain release from death; or else will learn, 
at last, though late, that it is lost labor to revere 
the dead. Exit CREON. 

Cu. Love, unconquered in the fight, Love, who 
makest havoc of wealth, who keepest thy vigil on 
the soft cheek of a maiden; thou roamest over the 
sea, and among the homes of dwellers in the wilds; 
no immortal can escape thee, nor any among men 
whose life is for a day; and he to whom thou hast 
come is mad. 

The just themselves have their minds warped 
by thee to wrong, for their ruin: ‘tis thou that 


hast stirred up this present strife of kinsmen; 


victorious is the love-kindling light from the eyes 
of the fair bride; it is a power enthroned in sway 
beside the eternal laws; for there the goddess 
Aphrodite is working her unconquerable will. 

But now I also am carried beyond the bounds of 
loyalty, and can no more keep back the streaming 
tears, when I see Antigone thus passing to the 


bridal chamber where all are laid to rest. 
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ANTITONH. 


SEVENTH Scene. Creon. ANTIGONE. Two SERVANTS OF 
CRrEON. 


Ἐπεισόδιον δ΄. 


ANTITONH. 


Στροφὴ d. 
ead yd 4 A , A \ , ε δὲ 
ὁρᾶτ᾽ ἔμ᾽, ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται, τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν 
, ,’ὕ , 4 9 ’ 
στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγγος λεύσσουσαν ἀελίου, 
loam 
810 κοὔποτ᾽ αὖθις. ἀλλά μ᾽ ὁ παγκοίτας “Aidas ζῶσαν ἄγει 
τὰν ᾿Αχέροντος 
ἀκτάν, οὔθ᾽ ὑμεναίων ἔγκληρον. ov” ἐπὶ νυμφείοις 
, ,’ 9 9 9 3929 , 4 
815 πώ μέ τις ὕμνος ὕμνησεν, ἀλλ᾽ ᾿Αχέροντι νυμφεύσω. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 


9 A s ) » 3 
οὐκοῦν κλεινὴ καὶ ἔπαινον ἔχουσ᾽ 
9 4δ᾽ 9 , vO 4 
és τόδ᾽ ἀπέρχει κεῦθος νεκύων, 

¥ ld A 
οὔτε φθινάσιν πληγεῖσα νόσοις 

» 4 27 A 3 
οὔτε ξιφέων ἐπίχειρα λαχοῦσ᾽, 
ἀλλ᾽ αὐτόνομος ζῶσα μόνη δὴ 
θνητῶν ᾿Αίδην καταβήσει. 


ANTITONH. 
"Αντιστροφὴ d. 
ἤκουσα δὴ λυγροτάταν ὀλέσθαι τὰν Φρυγίαν ξέναν 
826 Ταντάλου Σιπύλῳ πρὸς ἄκρῳ, τὰν κισσὸς ὡς ἀτενὴς 
πετραία βλάστα δάμασεν, καί vw ὄμβροι τακομῶαν, 
ὡς φάτις ἀνδρῶν, 
880 χιών τ᾽ οὐδαμὰ λείπει, τέγγει δ᾽ ὑπ’ ὀφρύσι παγκλαύτοις 
δειράδας - ἃ με δαίμων ὁμοιοτάταν κατευνάζει. 





ANTIGONE. 


SEVENTH SCENE. CREON. ANTIGONE. Two SERVANTS OF 
CREON. 

An. See me, citizens of my fatherland, setting 
forth on my last way, looking my last on the sun- 
light that is for me no more; no, Hades who gives 
sleep to all leads me living to Acheron’s shore; 
who have had no portion in the chant that brings 
the bride, nor hath any song been mine for the 
crowning of bridals; whom the lord of the Dark 
Lake shall wed. 


Cu. Glorious, therefore, and with praise, thou 
departest to that deep place of the dead: wasting 
sickness hath not smitten thee; thou hast not 


found the wages of the sword; no, mistress of 
thine own fate, and still alive, thou shalt pass to 
Hades, as no other of mortal kind hath passed. 

An. I have heard in other days how dread a 
doom befell our Phrygian guest, the daughter of 
Tantalus, on the Sipylian heights; how, like cling- 
ing ivy, the growth of stone subdued her; and the 
rains fail not, as men tell, from her wasting form, 
nor fails the snow, while beneath her weeping lids 
the tears bedew her bosom; and most like to hers 
is the fate that brings me to my rest. 

Cu. Yet she was a goddess, thou knowest, .and 
born of gods; we are mortals, and of mortal race. 

75 








ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
ἀλλὰ θεός τοι καὶ θεογεννής, 
835 ἡμεῖς δὲ βροτοὶ καὶ θνητογενεῖς. 


καίτοι φθιμένῳ τοῖς ἰσοθέους 
ἔγκληρα λαχεῖν μέγ᾽ ἀκοῦσαι. 


ΑΝΤΙΓΌΝΗ. 
Στροφὴ β΄. 
Ε a ’ ᾿ A ’ 
οἴμοι γελῶμαι. τί με, πρὸς θεῶν πατρῴων, 
840 οὐκ οἰχομέναν ὑβρίζεις, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπίφαντον ; 
μὴ L μὴ , , » 
ὦ πόλις, ὦ πόλεως πολυκτήμονες ἄνδρες" 
ἰὼ Διρκαῖαι κρῆναι 
845 Θήβας τ᾽ εὐαρμάτου ἄλσος, ἔμπας ξυμμάρτυρας ὕμμ᾽ 
ἐπικτῶμαι, 
9 ld ¥ 9 ’ 
οἷα φίλων ἄκλαυτος, οἷοις νόμοις 
πρὸς ἔργμα τυμβόχωστον ἔρχομαι τάφου ποταινίου " 
34 4 , 3 ¥y 9 9 A ¥ 3 9 Lal 
850 ἰὼ δύστανός γ᾽, ovr’ ἐν βροτοῖσιν ovr ἐν νεκροισι 
μέτοικος, οὐ ζῶσιν, οὐ θανοῦσιν. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
Στροφὴ γ΄. 
προβᾶσ᾽ én ἔσχατον θράσους 
ὑψηλὸν ἐς Δίκας βάθρον 
855 προσέπεσες, ὦ τέκνον, πολύ. 
πατρῷον δ᾽ ἐκτίνεις τιν᾽ ἄθλον. 


ΑΝΤΙΓΌΝΗ. ¢ 
Αντιστροφὴ β΄. 
ν 9 , 2 A , 
ἔψαυσας ἀλγεινοτάτας ἐμοὶ μερίμνας, 
860 πατρὸς τριπόλιστον οἶκτον, τοῦ τε πρόπαντος 
ε , , A , 
ἁμετέρου πότμου κλεινοῖς Λαβδακίδαισιν. 


ἰὼ ματρῷαι λέκτρων 


ANTIGONE. 


But ’tis great renown for a woman who hath 
perished that she should have shared the doom of 
the godlike, in her life, and afterward in death. 

An. Ah, I am mocked! In the name of our 
fathers’ gods, can ye not wait till I am gone,— 
must ye taunt me to my face, O my city, and ye, 
her wealthy sons? Ah, fount of Dirce, and thou 
holy ground of Thebé whose chariots are many ; 
ye, at least, will bear me witness, in what sort, 
unwept of friends, and by what laws I pass to the 
rock-closed prison of my strange tomb, ah me un- 
happy! who have no home on the earth or in the 
shades, no home with the living or with the dead. 

Cu. Thou hast rushed forward to the utmost 
verge of daring; and against that throne where 
Justice sits on high thou hast fallen, my daughter, 
with a grievous fall. But in this ordeal thou art 
paying, haply, for thy father’s sin, 

An. Thou hast touched on my bitterest thought, 
—awaking the ever-new lament for my sire and for 
all the, doom given to us, the famed house of 
Labdacus. Alas for the horrors of the mother’s 
bed! alas:for the wretched mother’s slumber at the 
side of her own son,—and my sire! From what 


manner of parents did I take my miserable being! 
77 

















ANTITONH. 


866 drat κοιμήματά τ᾽ αὐτογώωνητ᾽ ἐμῷ πατρὶ δυσμόρον 
ματρός, 
οἵων ἐγώ ποθ᾽ ἁ ταλαίφρων ἔφυν 
πρὸς ods ἀραῖος, ἄγαμος, ad’ ἐγὼ μέτοικος ἔρχομαι, 
810 ἰὼ δυσπότμων ἰὼ γάμων κασίγνητε κύρσας, 
θανὼν ἔτ᾽ οὖσαν κατήναρές με. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
᾿Αντιστροφὴ γ΄. 
σέβειν μὲν εὐσέβειά τις, 
κράτος δ᾽ ὅτῳ κράτος μέλει, 
mapaBaroy οὐδαμῇ πέλει, + 
875 σὲ δ᾽ αὐτόγνωτος ὦλεσ᾽ ὀργά. 


ΑΝΤΙΓΌΝΗ. 
᾿Ἔπῳδός. 
ἄκλαυτος, ἄφιλος, ἀνυμέναιος ταλαίφρων ἄγομαι 
τάνδ᾽ ἑτοίμαν ὁδόν " 
> 9.ω ’ 4 ean 
οὐκέτι μοι τόδε λαμπάδος ἱρὸν 
880 ὄμμα θέμις ὁρᾶν ταλαίνᾳ " 
Q > 9 A 4, 9 4 
τὸν δ᾽ ἐμὸν πότμον ἀδάκρυτον 
οὐδεὶς φίλων στενάζει. 


4 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. - 
a >. ¥ “ὦ δὰ \ , S A 6 A 
ρ᾽ tor’, ἀοιδὰς καὶ γόους πρὸ τοῦ θανεῖν, 
ε 299 , > »* 9 ’ , 
ὡς οὐδ᾽ ἃ» εἷς παύσαιτ᾽ ἄν, εἰ χρείη λέγειν; 
885 οὐκ ἀξεθ᾽ ὡς τάχιστα; καὶ κατηρεφεῖ 
τύμβῳ περιπτύξαντες, ὡς εἴρηκ᾽ ἐγώ, 
ἄφετε μόνην, ἔρημον, εἶτε χρῇ θανεῖν, 
εἴτ᾽ ἐν τοιαύτῃ ζῶσα τυμβεύειν στέγῃ. 
ἡμεῖς γὰρ ἁγνοὶ τοὐπὶ τήνδε τὴν κόρην" 
, > 4 a» , 
890 μετοικίας δ᾽ οὖν τῆς ἄνω στερήσεται. 





ANTIGONE. 


And to them I go thus, accursed, unwed, to share 
their home. Alas, my brother, ill-starred in thy 
marriage, in thy death thou hast undone my life! 

Cu. Reverent action claims a certain praise for 
reverence; but an offence against power cannot be 
brooked by him who hath power in his keeping. 
Thy self-willed temper hath wrought thy ruin. 


yf 


An. Unwept, unfriended, without marriage- “κατ 


song, I am led forth in my sorrow on this journey — 
that can be delayed no more. No longer, hapless 
one, may I behold yon day-star’s sacred eye; but 
for my fate no tear is shed, no friend makes moan. 

Cr. Know ye not that songs and wailings be- 
fore death would never cease, if it profited to 
utter them? Away with her—away! And when 
ye have enclosed her, according to my word, in her 
vaulted grave, leave her alone, forlorn —whether 
she wishes to die, or to live a buried life in such a 
home. Our hands are clean as touching this 
maiden. But this is certain—she shall be deprived 
of her sojourn in the light. 

An. Tomb, bridal-chamber, eternal prison in 
the caverned rock, whither I go to find mine own, 
those many who have perished, and whom Perse- 


phone hath received among the dead! Last of all 
79 





ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


ANTITONH. 
ὦ τύμβος, ὦ νυμφεῖον, ὦ κατασκαφὴς 
οἴκησις ἀείφρουρος, οἷ πορεύομαι 
πρὸς τοὺς ἐμαυτῆς, ὧν ἀριθμὸν ἐν νεκροῖς 
πλεῖστον δέδεκται Φερσέφασσ᾽ ὀλωλότων " 
895 ὧν λοισθία ᾽γὼ καὶ κάκιστα δὴ μακρῷ 
κάτειμι, πρίν μοι μοῖραν ἐξήκειν βίον. 
ἐλθοῦσα μέντοι κάρτ᾽ ἐν ἐλπίσιν τρέφω 
φίλη μὲν ἥξειν πατρί, προσφιλὴς δὲ σοί, 
μῆτερ, φίλη δὲ σοί, κασίγνητον κάρα" 
900 ἐπεὶ θανόντας αὐτόχειρ ὑμᾶς ἐγὼ 
ἔλουσα κἀκόσμησα κἀπιτυμβίους 
χοὰς ἔδωκα" νῦν δέ, Πολύνεικες, τὸ σὸν 
δέμας περιστέλλουσα τοιάδ᾽ ἄρνυμαι. 
καίτοι σ᾽ ἐγὼ ᾿᾽τίμησα τοῖς φρονοῦσιν εὖ" 
905 οὐ γάρ mor οὔτ᾽ ἂν εἰ τέκνων μήτηρ ἔφυν, 
οὔτ᾽ εἰ πόσις μοι κατθανὼν ἑτήκετο, 
βίᾳ πολιτῶν τόνδ᾽ ἂν ἠρόμην πόνον. 
τίνος νόμου δὴ ταῦτα πρὸς χάριν λέγω; 
πόσις μὲν ἄν μοι κατθανόντος ἄλλος ἦν, 
910 καὶ παῖς ἀπ᾽ ἄλλον φωτός, εἰ τοῦδ᾽ ἤμπλακον " 
μητρὸς δ᾽ ἐν ἼΑιδου καὶ πατρὸς κεκευθότοιν 
οὐκ ἔστ᾽ ἀδελφὸς ὅστις ἂν βλάστοι ποτέ. 
τοιῷδε μέντοι σ᾽ ἐκπροτιμήσασ᾽ ἐγὼ 
νόμῳ, Κρέοντι ταῦτ᾽ ἔδοξ᾽ ἁμαρτάνειν 
916 καὶ δεινὰ τολμᾶν, ὦ κασίγνητον κάρα. 
καὶ νῦν ἄγει με διὰ χερῶν οὕτω λαβὼν 
ἄλεκτρον, ἀνυμέναιον, οὗτε τον γάμου 
μέρος λαχοῦσαν οὔτε παιδείου τροφῆς" 
ἀλλ᾽ ὧδ᾽ ἔρημος πρὸς φίλων ἡ δύσμορος 
920 ζῶσ᾽ εἰς θανόντων ἔρχομαι κατασκαφάς, 





ANTIGONE. 


shall I pass thither, and far most miserably of all, 
before the term of my life is spent. But I cherish 
good hope that my coming will be welcome to my 
father, and pleasant to thee, my mother, and wel- 


come, brother, to thee; for, when ye died, with | 


mine own hands I washed and dressed you, and 
poured drink-offerings at your graves; and now, | 
Polyneices, 'tis for tending thy corpse that I win 
such recompense at this. 

[And yet I honored thee, as the wise will deem, 
rightly. Never, had I been a mother of children, 
or if a husband had been mouldering in death, 
would I have taken this task upon me in the city’s 
despite. What law, ye ask, is my warrant for that 
word? The husband lost, another might have been 
found, and child from another, to replace the first- 
born; but, father and mother hidden with Hades, 
no brother’s life could ever bloom for me again. 
Such was the law whereby I held thee first in 
honor; but Creon deemed me guilty of error 
therein, and of outrage, ah brother mine! And 
now he leads me thus, a captive in his hands; no 
bridal bed, no bridal song hath been mine, no joy 
of marriage, no portion in the nurture of children; 
but thus, forlorn of friends, unhappy one, I go 


living to the vaults of death.] 
81 


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ANTITONH, 


ποίαν παρεξελθοῦσα δαιμόνων δίκην; 
ld ’ \ 4 AY 
τί χρή pe THY δύστηνον ἐς θεοὺς ἔτι 
βλέπειν, τίν᾽ αὐδᾶν ξυμμάχων, ἐπεί γε δὴ 
XN 2 Ε} a 9 4 
τὴν δυσσέβειαν εὐσεβοῦσ᾽ ἐκτησάμην ; 
926 ἀλλ᾽ εἰ μὲν οὖν τάδ᾽ ἐστὶν ἐν θεοῖς καλά, 
παθόντες ἂν ξυγγνοῖμεν ἡμαρτηκότες ' 
> 9 9 ε 4 i 4 
εἰ δ᾽ οἵδ᾽ ἁμαρτάνουσι, μὴ πλείω κακὰ 
πάθοιεν ἣ καὶ δρῶσιν ἐκδίκως ἐμέ. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
ΕἾ A 9 A 9 9 4 
ἔτι τῶν αὐτῶν ἀνέμων αὑταὶ 
980 ψυχῆς ῥιπαὶ τήνδε γ᾽ ἔχουσιν. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
τοιγὰρ τούτων τοῖσιν ἄγουσι 
κλαύμαθ᾽ ὑπάρξει βραδυτῆτος ὕπερ. 
ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ. 

οἴμοι, θανάτου τοῦτ᾽ ἐγγντάτω 

τοὔπος ἀφῖκται. 

ΧΟΡΟΣ, 

935 θαρσεῖν οὐδὲν παραμυθοῦμαι, 
μὴ οὐ τάδε ταύτῃ κατακυροῦσθαι. 

ΑΝΤΙΓΌΝΗ, 
ὦ γῆς Θήβης ἄστυ πατρῷον 
καὶ θεοὶ προγενεῖς, 
ἄγομαι δὴ κοὐκέτι μέλλω. 

940 λεύσσετε, Θήβης οἱ κοιρανίδαι, 
τὴν βασιλειδῶν μούνην λουπήν, 
οἷα πρὸς οἵων ἀνδρῶν πάσχω, 
τὴν εὐσεβίαν σεβίσασα. 





ANTIGONE. 


And what law of heaven have I transgressed ? 
Why, hapless one, should I look to the gods any 
more, — what ally should I invoke, — when by piety 
I have earned the name of impious? Nay, then, 
if these things are pleasing to the gods, when I 
have suffered my doom, I shall come to know my 
sin; but if the sin is with my judges, I could wish 
them no fuller measure of evil than they, on their 
part, mete wrongfully to me. 

Cu. Still the same tempest of the soul vexes 
this maiden with the same fierce gusts. 

Cr. Then for this shall her guards have cause 
to rue their slowness. 

An. Ah me! that word hath come very near to 
death. 

Cr. I can cheer thee with no hope that this 
doom is not thus to be fulfilled. 

An. O city of my fathers in the land of Theba! 
O ye gods, eldest of our race!—they lead me 
hence— now, now—they tarry not! Behold me, 
princes of Thebes, the last daughter of the house 
of your kings, —see what I suffer, and from whom, 


because I feared to cast away the fear of Heaven! 


ANTIGONE is led away by the guards. 
83 

































ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


U4 ’ 
Στάσιμον 9’, 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
Στροφὴ «. 
ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς 
945 ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς - 
, 9. 9° , , , 
κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη " 
καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ, 
4 
960 καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους. 
9 > ε , 4 , 
GAN ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά " 
y»> » » »ν 3}. 3 4 9 εν 7 
οὔτ᾽ av νιν ὄλβος ovT “Apys, οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι 
κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν. 


᾿Αντιστροφὴ d. 


95 ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος, 
9 A ’ ld 9 A 
Ηδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς, 
3 4 58 , 9 ὃ A 
ἐκ Διονύσον πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ. 
οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει 
᾽ , ’, A > 4 ’ 
960 avOnodv TE μένος " KELVOS ἐπέγνω μανίαις 
ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις. 
παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ, 
965 φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας. | 





Σιροφὴ β΄. 
παρὰ δὲ Κνανεᾶν σπιλάδων διδύμας ἁλὸς 
ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν ἄξενος 
90 Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν᾿ ἀγχίπολις ΓΑρης 
δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαυς 
εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος 


ANTIGONE. 


Cu. Even thus endured Danaé in her beauty to 
change the light of day for brass-bound walls; and 
in that chamber, secret as the grave, she was held 


close prisoner; yet was she of a proud lineage, O 


᾿ 


eee 


my daughter, and charged with the keeping of the 
seed of Zeus, that fell in the golden rain. 

But dreadful is the mysterious power of a) 
there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, 4 
by fenced city, or dark, sea-beaten ships. ᾿ 

And bonds tamed the son of Dryas, swift to 
wrath, that king of the Edonians; so paid he for 
his frenzied taunts, when, by the will of Dionysus, 
he was pent in a rocky prison. There the fierce 
exuberance of his madness slowly passed away. 
That man learned to know the god, whom in his 
frenzy he had provoked with mockeries; for he 
sought to quell the god-possessed women, and the 
Bacchanalian fire; and he angered the Muses that 
love the flute. 

And by the waters of the Dark Rocks, the 
waters of the twofold sea, are the shores of Bos- 
porus, and Thracian Salmydessus; where Ares, 


neighbor to the city, saw the accurst, blinding 
85 










ANTITONH. 




















τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος 
9 x 9 , > , UA 
ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις 

975 ἀραχθέντων ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς 

χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσν. 





᾿Αντιστροφὴ β΄. 
κατὰ δὲ τακόμενοι μέλεοι μελέαν πάθον 
κλαῖον, ματρόςι ἔχοντες ἀνύμφευτον γονάν " 
980 ἁ δὲ σπέρμα μὲν ἀρχαιογόνων 
» 3.93 “Qn i 
ἄντασ᾽ ᾿Ερεχθεϊδᾶν, 
, 43 4 
τηλεπόροις δ΄ ἐν ἄντροις 
τράφη θυέλλαισιν ἐν πατρῴαις 
ε Ν 9 3 , e 8 4 
985 Bopeds ἅμιππος ὀρθόποδος ὑπὲρ πάγον 
θεῶν mats: ἀλλὰ κἀπ᾽ ἐκείνᾳ 
Μοῖραι μακραίωνες ἔσχον, ὦ παῖ. 





ἘΙΘΗΤΗ Scene. CREON. TIRESIAS. 









"Brevodouov €. 






TEIPESIA2. 
Θήβης ἄνακτες, ἥκομεν κοινὴν ὁδὸν 
δύ᾽ ἐξ ἑνὸς βλέποντε" τοῖς τυφλοῖσι γὰρ 
990 αὕτη κέλευθος ἐκ προηγητοῦ πέλει. 





ΚΡΕΩΝ. 


τί δ᾽ ἔστιν, ὦ γεραιὲ Τειρεσία, νέον ; 






ΤΕΙΡΕΣΙΑΣ. 


ἐγὼ διδάξω, καὶ σὺ τῷ μάντει πιθοῦ. 


ANTIGONE. 


wound dealt to the two sons of Phineus by his 
fierce wife,—the wound that brought darkness to 
those vengeance-craving orbs, smitten with her 


: bloody hands, smitten with her shuttle for a dagger. 


Pining in their misery, they bewailed their cruel 
doom, those sons of a mother hapless in her 
marriage; but she traced her descent from the 
ancient line of the Erechtheidae; and in far-distant 
caves she was nursed amid her father’s storms, 
that child of Boreas, swift as a steed over the steep 
hills, a daughter of gods; yet upon her also the 
grey Fates bore hard, my daughter. 


EIGHTH SCENE. CREON. TIRESIAS. 
Enter TEIRESIAS, led by a boy, on the spectators’ right. 


Tr. Princes of Thebes, we have come with 
linked steps, both served by the eyes of one; for 
thus, by a guide’s help, the blind must walk. 

Cr. And what, aged Teiresias, are thy tidings? 

Tr. I will tell thee; and do thou hearken to 
the seer. 

Cr. Indeed, it has not been my wont to slight 
thy counsel. 

Te. Therefore didst thou steer our city’s course 


aright. 
87 


agen τ  .ὄὄ.  e 


7 
ἘΞ: 





ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
οὔκουν πάρος γε ONS ἀπεστάτουν φρενός. 
ΤΕΙΡΕΣΙΑΣ, 
τοιγὰρ δι’ ὀρθῆς τήνδε ναυκληρεῖς πόλιν. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
Ε Q a] 4 
995 ἔχω πεπονθὼς μαρτυρεῖν ὀνήσιμα. 
ΤΕΙΡΕΣΊΑΣ. 
φρόνει βεβὼς αὖ νῦν ἐπὶ ξυροῦ τύχης. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν, 
τί δ᾽ ἔστιν ; ὡς ἐγὼ τὸ σὸν φρίσσω στόμα. 


ΤΕΙΡΕΣΙΑΣ. 
γνώσει, τέχνης σημεῖα τῆς ἐμῆς κλύων. 


> Ν Ν A 9 4 

εἰς yap παλαιὸν θᾶκον ὀρνιθοσκόπον 
1000 ἵζων, iv’ ἦν μοι παντὸς οἰωνοῦ λιμήν, 

3 Aa > ὃ 4 4 > V4 aA 

ἀγνῶτ᾽ ἀκούω φθόγγον ὀρνίθων, κακῷ 

4 » \ , 
κλάζοντας οἴστρῳ καὶ βεβαρβαρωμένῳ.' 

A la > _A 9 4 A 
καὶ σπῶντας ἐν χηλαῖσιν ἀλλήλους φοναῖς 
¥ a Q ea 3 » 
ἔγνων: πτερῶν yap potBdos οὐκ ἄσημος ἦν. 

1005 εὐθὺς δὲ δείσας ἐμπύρων ἐγευόμην 

- A , , 
βωμοῖσι παμφλέκτοισιν ék δὲ θυμάτων 
Ἥφαιστος οὐκ ἔλαμπεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ σποδῷ 
μυδῶσα κηκὶς μηρίων ἐτήκετο 
κἄτυφε κἀνέπτυε, καὶ μετάρσιοι 

‘ ΄, ᾿ A 

1010 χολαὶ διεσπείροντο, καὶ καταρρνεῖς 
μηροὶ καλυπτῆς ἐξέκειντο πιμελῆς. 
τοιαῦτα παιδὸς τοῦδ᾽ ἐμάνθανον πάρα 
φθίνοντ᾽ ἀσήμων ὀργίων μαντεύματα ' 
ἐμοὶ γὰρ οὗτος ἡγεμών, ἄλλοις δ᾽ ἐγώ. 





ANTIGONE. 


Cr. Ihave felt, and can attest, thy benefits. 

Tr. Mark that now, once more, thou standest 
on fate’s fine edge. 

Cr. What means this? How I shudder at thy 
message ! 

Tr. . Thou wilt learn, when thou hearest the 
warnings of mine art. As I took my place on 
mine old seat of augury, where all birds have been 
wont to gather within my ken, I heard a strange 
voice among them; they were screaming with dire, 
ferverish rage, that drowned their language in a 
jargon; and I knew that they were rending each 
other with their talons, murderously; the whirr of 
wings told no doubtful tale. 

Forthwith, in fear, I essayed burnt-sacrifice on a 
duly kindled altar: but from my offerings the Fire- 
god showed no flame; a dank moisture, oozing 
from the thigh-flesh, trickled forth upon the embers, 
and smoked, and sputtered; the gall was scattered 
to the air; and the streaming thighs lay bared of 
the fat that had been wrapped round them. 

Such was the failure of the rites by which I 


vainly asked a sign, as from this boy I learned; for 


he is my guide, as I am guide to others. And 'tis> 
thy counsel that hath brought this sickness on our_‘ 
state. For the altars of our city and of our hearths 


have been tainted, one and all, by birds and dogs, 
89 





ANTITONH. 


1015 καὶ ταῦτα τῆς σῆς ἐκ φρενὸς νοσεῖ πόλις. 
βωμοὶ γὰρ ἡμῖν ἐσχάραι τε παντελεῖς 
πλήρεις ὑπ᾽ οἰωνῶν τε καὶ κυνῶν βορᾶς 
τοῦ δυσμόρου πεπτῶτος Οἰδίπου γόνου. 

a 9 > ΄ , 8 Ὁ 
Kar’ οὐ δέχονται θυστάδας Auras ἔτι 
1020 θεοὺ παρ᾽ ἡμῶν οὐδὲ μηρίων φλόγα, 
39> ¥ > 4 9 A 4 
οὐδ᾽ ὄρνι: εὐσήμους ἀπορροιβδεῖ Bods, 
ἀνδροφθόρον βεβρῶτες αἵματος λίπος. 
ταῦτ᾽ οὖν, τέκνον, φρόνησον. ἀνθρώποισι γὰρ 
τοῖς πᾶσι κοινόν ἐστι τοὐξαμαρτάνειν " 
> SN > ε 4 wey 3 »,»92ν»ν > 5 A 

1025 ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἁμάρτῃ, κεῖνος οὐκέτ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἀνὴρ 
¥ 209 ¥ y 3 N 
dBovdos οὐδ᾽ ἄνολβος, ὅστις ἐς κακὸν 
πεσὼν ἀκεῖται μηδ᾽ ἀκίνητος πέλει. 

9 ld 4 3.9 ld 
αὐθαδία τοι σκαιότητ᾽ ὀφλισκάνει. 
ἀλλ᾽ εἶκε τῷ θανόντι μηδ᾽ ὀλωλότα 

, ,’ 9 Q ᾿Ὺ , 9.9 A 

1080 κέντει. τίς ἀλκὴ τὸν θανόντ᾽ ἐπικτανεῖν ; 
εὖ σοι φρονήσας εὖ λέγω" τὸ μανθάνειν δ᾽ 
“oy 4 , 3 , ὃ , 
ἥδιστον εὖ λέγοντος, εἰ κέρδος λέγοι. 


-+ ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 


4 , , 9 , A 
ὦ πρέσβυ, πάντες wore τοξόται σκοποῦ 


4.3 3 Ν A 2QA A 
τοξεύετ᾽ ἀνδρὸς τοῦδε, κοὐδὲ μαντικῆς 
1035 ἄπρακτος ὑμῖν εἰμι" τῶν ὑπαὶ γένους 
3 4 9 ’ 4 
ἐξημπόλημαι κἀμπεφόρτισμαι πάλαι. 
κερδαίνετ᾽, ἐμπολᾶτε τἀπὸ Σάρδεων 
ἤλεκτρον, εἰ βούλεσθε, καὶ τὸν ᾿ἸΙνδικὸν 
, , > 9 4 9% 4 
χρυσόν τάφῳ δ᾽ ἐκεῖνον οὐχὶ κρύψετε. 
1040 οὐδ᾽ εἰ θέλουσ᾽ οἱ Ζηνὸς αἰετοὶ βορὰν 
, ld > Ν ’ 
φέρειν νιν ἁρπάζοντες ἐς Διὸς θρόνους, 
οὐδ᾽ ὡς μίασμα τοῦτο μὴ ΜΠ ἐγὼ 
θάπτειν παρήσω κεῖνον. εὖ γὰρ οἶδ᾽ ὅτι 





ANTIGONE. 


with carrion from the hapless corpse, the son of 
Oedipus: and therefore the gods no more accept 
prayer and sacrifice at our hands, or the flame of 
meat-offering ; nor doth any bird give a clear sign 
by its shrill cry, for they have tasted the fatness of 
a slain man’s blood. 

Think, then, on these things, my son. All men 
are liable to err; but when an error hath been 
made, that man is no longer witless or unblest who 
heals the ill into which he hath fallen, and remains 
not stubborn. Self-will, we know, incurs the charge 
of folly. Nay, allow the claim of the dead; stab 
not the fallen ; what prowess is it to slay the slain 
anew? I have sought thy good, and for thy good 
I speak: and never is it sweeter to learn from a 
good counsellor than when he counsels for thine 
own gain. 

Cr. Old man, ye all shoot your shafts at me, as 
archers at the butts;—- ye must needs practise on 
me with seer-craft also ;— aye, the seer-tribe hath 
long trafficked in me, and made me their mer- 


chandise. Gain your gains, drive your trade, if ye 


list, in the silver-gold of Sardis and the gold of 


India; but ye shall not hide that man in the grave, 
of 








ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


θεοὺς μιαίνειν οὔτις ἀνθρώπων σθένει. 
1046 πίπτουσι δ᾽, ὦ γεραιὲ Τειρεσία, βροτῶν 
> ba} Α 4 3 ¥ 3 ῳ 4 
χοὶ πολλὰ δεινοὶ πτώματ᾽ αἴσχρ᾽, ὅταν λόγους 
αἰσχροὺς καλῶς λέγωσι τοῦ κέρδους χάριν. 


“ TEIPEZIA2. 
ev: 


dp’ οἶδεν ἀνθρώπων τις, dpa φράζεται, 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
τί χρῆμα; ποῖον τοῦτο πάγκοινον λέγεις ; 
ΤΕΙΡΕΣΊΑΣ. 
τοδοὅσῳ κράτιστον κτημάτων εὐβουλία; 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
ὅσῳπερ, οἶμαι, μὴ φρονεῖν πλείστη βλάβη. 
ΤΕΙΡΕΣΙΑΣ. 
4 Q , A , , ΕΣ 
ταύτης σὺ μέντοι τῆς νόσου πλήρης ἔφυς. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
9 4 Ν 4 9 A A 
οὐ βούλομαι τὸν μάντιν ἀντειπεῖν κακῶς. 
: TEIPEZIAZ. 
καὶ μὴν λέγεις, ψευδῆ με θεσπίζειν λέγων. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
10557) μαντικὸν γὰρ πᾶν φιλάργυρον γώνος. 
ΤΕΙΡΕΣΙΑΣ. 
Ν > 9 4 9 4 A 
τὸ δ᾽ ἐκ τυράννων αἰσχροκέρδειαν φιλεῖ, 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
dp’ οἶσθα ταγοὺς ὄντας ἂν λέγῃς λέγων ; 
ΤΕΙΡΕΣΊΑΣ. 
οἶδ᾽. ἐξ ἐμοῦ γὰρ τήνδ᾽ ἔχεις σώσας πόλιν. 





ANTIGONE, 


—no, though the eagles of Zeus should bear the 
carrion morsels to their Master’s throne — no, not 
for dread of that defilement will I suffer his burial : 
—for well I know that no mortal can defile the 
gods. — But, aged Teiresias, the wisest fall with a 
shameful fall, when they clothe shameful thoughts 
in fair words, for lucre’s sake. 

Tre. Alas! Doth any man know, doth any 
consider ... . r 

Cr. Whereof? What general truth dost thou 
announce ? : 

Tr. How precious, above all wealth, is good 
counsel. 

Cr. As folly, I think, is the worst mischief. 

Tre. Yet thou art tainted with that distemper. 

Cr. I would not answer the seer with a taunt. 

Tr. But thou dost, in saying that I prophesy 
falsely. — 

Cr. Well, the prophet-tribe was ever fond of 
money. 


ΤΕ. And the race bred of tyrants loves base 


gain. 
Cr. Knowest thou that thy speech is spoken of 
thy King? 
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ANTITONH. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
σοφὸς σὺ μάντις, ἀλλὰ τἀδικεῖν φιλῶν. 
ΤΕΙΡΕΣΙΑΣ. 
10θ0ὄρσεις με τἀκίνητα διὰ φρενῶν φράσαι. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 


, U4 A , 9 ἃ 4 ld 
κίνει, μόνον δὲ μὴ ᾽πὶ κέρδεσιν λέγων. 


ΤΕΙΡΕΣΊΑΣ. 


οὕτω γὰρ ἤδη καὶ δοκῶ τὸ σὸν μέρος. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
ε , 93 4 ¥ A > A 2, 
Os μὴ ᾿μπολήσων ἴσθι τὴν ἐμὴν φρένα. 
TEIPEZIAZ. 
GAN εὖ γέ τοι κάτισθι μὴ πολλοὺς ἔτι 
1065 τρόχους ἁμιλλητῆρας ἡλίου τελῶν, 
ἐν οἷσι τῶν σῶν αὐτὸς ἐκ σπλάγχνων ἕνα 
νέκυν νεκρῶν ἀμοιβὸν ἀντιδοὺς ἔσει, 
> 4 » Q A ¥ \ 4 
ἀνθ᾽ ὧν ἔχεις μὲν τῶν ἄνω βαλὼν κάτω 
ψυχήν τ᾽ ἀτίμως ἐν τάφῳ κατῴκισας, 
1010 ἔχεις δὲ τῶν κάτωθεν ἐνθάδ᾽ αὖ θεῶν 
᾿ ἄμοιρον, ἀκτέριστον, ἀνόσιον νέκυν. 
ὧν οὔτε σοὶ μέτεστιν οὔτε τοῖς ἄνω 
θεοῖσιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ σοῦ βιάζονται τάδε. 
,’ A e 4 
τούτων σε λωβητῆρες ὑστεροφθόροι 
1015 λοχῶσιν ἼΑιδον καὶ θεῶν ᾿Ἐρινύες, 
9 A 9 aA A A A 
ἐν τοῖσιν αὐτοῖς τοῖσδε ληφθῆναι κακοῖς. 
καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἄθρησον εἰ κατηργυρωμένος 
λέγω" φανεῖ γὰρ οὐ μακροῦ χρόνου τριβὴ 
ἀνδρῶν νυναικῶν σοῖς δόμοις κωκύματα. 








ANTIGONE. 


Tr. Iknow it; fur through me thou hast saved 
Thebes. Ϊ 

Cr. Thou art ἃ wise seer; but thou lovest evil } 
deeds. ! | 

ΤΕ. Thou wilt rouse me to utter the dread 
secret in my soul. 

Cr. Out with it!—Only speak it not for gain. | 

ΤΕ. Indeed, methinks, I shali not,—as touch- 


ing thee. = 
Cr. Know that thou shalt not trade on my ᾿ Ϊ 
resolve. | 





ΤΕ. Then know thou— aye, know it well — that 
thou shalt not live through many more courses of 
the sun’s swift chariot, ere one begotten of thine 
own loins shall have been given by thee, a corpse 


Ne - 
Q 
= ῃ = 


for corpses; because thou hast thrust children of 





the sunlight to the shades, and ruthlessly lodged a ] 
living soul in the grave; but keepest in this world i 
one who belongs to the gods infernal, a corpse un- 


hast no part, nor have the gods above, but this is a 
violence done to them by thee. Therefore the 
avenging destroyers lie in wait for thee, the Furies ) 
of Hades and of the gods, that thou mayest be ) a 
taken in these same ills. 


{ 
buried, unhonored, all unhallowed. In such thou | 
| 


95 








ΣΟΦΟΚΛΈΟΥΣ 


1080 ἐχθραὶ δὲ πᾶσαι συνταράσσονται πόλεις, 
ὅσων σπαράγματ᾽ ἣ κύνες καθήγνισαν, 
ἢ θῆρες, 4 τις πτηνὸς οἰωνός, φέρων 
ἀνόσιον ὀσμὴν ἑστιοῦχον ἐς πόλιν " 
τοιαῦτά σου, λυπεῖς yap, ὦστε τοξότης 
1086 ἀφῆκα θυμῷ καρδίας τοξεύματα 
, A \ ’ 9 ε A 
βέβαια, τῶν σὺ θάλπος οὐχ ὑπεκδραμεῖ. 
> aA \ 2 ε A 4 Q l4 9 
ὦ παῖ, σὺ δ᾽ ἡμᾶς ἄπαγε πρὸς δόμους, iva 
Q a a > > A 
τὸς θυμὸν οὗτος ἐς νεωτέρους ἀφῇ 
καὶ γνῷ τρέφειν τὴν γλῶσσαν ἡσυ; 1 ραν 
1090 Tv νοῦν τ᾽ ἀμείνω τῶν φρενῶν ὧν νῦν φέρει. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
ἁνήρ, ἄναξ, βέβηκε δεινὰ θεσπίσας. 
ἐπιστάμεσθα δ᾽, ἐξ ὅτου λευκὴν ἐγὼ 


τήνδ᾽ ἐκ μελαίνης ἀμφιβάλλομαι τρίχα, 
μή πώ ποτ᾽ αὐτὸν ψεῦδος ἐς πόλιν λακεῖν. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
» 9 » 4 , , 
1096 ἔγνωκα καὐτός, καὶ ταράσσομαι φρένας. 
4 9 9 La) a , 9 , 
τό τ᾽ εἰκαθεῖν yap δεινόν, ἀντιστάντα δὲ 
Ἂν ’ Q 3 A , 
ἄτῃ πατάξαι θυμὸν ἐν δεινῷ πάρα. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 


εὐβουλίας δεῖ, παῖ Μενοικέως, λαβεῖν. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
τί δῆτα χρὴ δρᾶν φράζε, πείσομαι δ᾽ ἐγώ. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 


1100 ἐλθὼν κόρην μὲν ἐκ κατώρυχος στέγης 
ἄνες, κτίσον δὲ τῷ προκειμένῳ τάφον. 





ANTIGONE. 


And mark well if I speak these things as a hire- 
ling. A time not long to be delayed shall awaken 
the wailing of men and of women in thy house. 
And atumult of hatred against thee stirs all the 
cities whose mangled sons had the burial-rite from 
dogs, or from wild beasts, or from some winged 
bird that bore a polluting breath to each: city that 
coniains the hearths of the dead. 

Such arrows for thy heart —since thou provok- 


est me—have I launched at thee, archer-like, in 


my anger, — sure arrows, of which thou shalt not 


escape the smart.— Boy, lead me home, that he 
may spend his rage on younger men, and learn to 
keep a tongue more temperate, and to bear within 


his breast a better mind than now he bears. 


Exit TEIRESIAS. 


Cu. The man hath gone, O King, with dread 
prophecies. And, since the hair on this head, once 
dark, hath been white, I know that he hath never 
been a false prophet to our city. 

Cr. I, too, know it well, and am troubled in 
soul. ’Tis dire to yield; but, by resistance, to 
smite my pride with ruin—this, too, is a. dire 
choice. 


97 








ANTITONH. 


Q A Φ 9 ᾿ A 4 A A 
Και TAUT ἐπαίνεις καὶ δοκεῖς παρεικαθεῖν ; 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 


ὅσον γ᾽, ἄναξ, τάχιστα' συντέμνουσι γὰρ 
θεῶν ποδώκεις τοὺς κακόφρονας Βλάβαι. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
1106 οἴμοι" μόλις μέν, καρδίας δ᾽ ἐξίσταμαι 
τὸ δρᾶν, ἀνάγκῃ δ᾽ οὐχὶ δυσμαχητέον. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 


δρᾶ νυν τάδ᾽ ἐλθὼν μηδ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλοισι τρέπε. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
ὧδ᾽ ὡς ἔχω στείχοιμ᾽ ἂν. ir’ ἴτ᾽ ὁπάονες, 
ν Ἂν 9 > 9 , 9 ζ aA 
οἱ T ὄντες οἵ τ᾽ ἀπόντες, ἀξίνας χεροῖν 
1110 ὁρμᾶσθ᾽ ἑλόντες εἰς ἐπόψιον τόπον. 
ἐγὼ δ᾽, ἐπειδὴ δόξα τῇδ᾽ ἐπεστράφη, 
> », 3 ᾿ LY 2 Ud 
αὐτός τὶ ἔδησα. καὶ παρὼν ἐκλύσομαι. 
δέδοικα γὰρ μὴ τοὺς καθεστῶτας νόμους 
ἄριστον ἢ σῴζοντα τὸν βίον τελεῖν. 


ὙὙπόρχημα. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
Στροφὴ d. 
1116 πολυώνυμε, Καδμείας νύμφας ἄγαλμα 
καὶ Διὸς βαρυβρεμέτα. 
ἡ γένος, κλυτὰν ὃς ἀμφέπεις 
4 ‘i ὁ Ἱκαρίαν, μέδεις δὲ 
η ᾿ Μροπαΐκοίνοις ᾿Ελευσινίας 





ANTIGONE. 


Cu. Son of Menoeceus, it behoves thee to take 
wise counsel. 

Cr. What should I do, then? Speak, and I 
will obey. 

Cu. Go thou, and free the maiden from her 
rocky chamber, and make a tomb for the unburied 
dead. : 

Cr And this is thy counsel? Thou wouldst 
have me yield? 

Cu. Yea, King, and with ai. speed; for swift 
harms from the gods cut short the folly of men. 

Cr. Ah me, ’tis hard, but I resign my cherished 
resolve,— I obey. We must not wage a vain war 
with destiny. : 

Cu. Go, thou, and do these things ; leave them 
not to others. 

Cr. Even as I am I'll go:—on, on, my servants, 


each and all of you, — take axes in your hands, and. 
hasten to the ground that ye see yonder! Since 
our judgment hath taken this turn, I will be 
present to unloose her, as I myself bound her. 
My heart misgives me, ’tis best to keep the estab- 
lished laws, even to life’s end. 


Cu. O thou of many names, glory of the Cad- 
meian bride, offspring of loud-thundering Zeus! 


thou who watchest over famed Italia, and reignest, 
99 








ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


Δῃοῦς ἐν κόλποις, Βακχεῦ, Βακχᾶν 
“,»,μματρόπολιν Θήβαν 
4 V ναιετῶν Tap ὑγρῶν 9 
1125 Ἰωμηνοῦ ῥείθρων, ἀγρίον τ᾽ ἐπὶ σπορᾷ δράκοντος. 


A OM 


᾿Αντιστροφὴ d. 
σὲ δ᾽ ὑπὲρ διλόφου πέτρας στέροψ ὅπωπε 
λιγνύς, ἔνθα Κωρύκιαι 
νύμφυιι στείχυυσι Βακχίδες, 
11380Κασταλίας τε νᾶμα" 
καί σε Νυσαίων ὀρέων 
κισσήρεις ὄχθαι χλωρά τ᾽ ἀκτὰ 
πολυστάφυλος πέμπει, 
ag ry ἀμβρότων ἐπέων 
1186 εὐαζόντων, @nBatas ἐπισκοποῦντ᾽ ἀγνιάς"» 


Στροφὴ β΄. 
Q 9 Leal Led ε ’ ’ 
τὰν ἐκ πασᾶν τιμᾷς ὑππρτάταν πόλεων 
ματρὶ σὺν κεραυνίᾳ" 
1140Kal νῦν, ὡς βιαίας ἔχεται 
, a as yon ey 
πάνδαμος πόλις ἐπὶ νόσον, 
μολεῖν καθαρσίῳ ποδὶ Παργασίαν ὑπὲρ κλιτὺν 
» Ἃ ’ , 
1146 ἣ στονόεντα πορθμόν. 


᾿Αντιστροφὴ β΄. 

oN A o 49 » ld 

ἰὼ πῦρ. πνειόντων χοράγ᾽ ἄστρων, νυχίων 
φθεγμάτων ἐπίσκοπε, 
παῖ Διὸς γένεθλον, προφάνηθ᾽, 

1160 ὦναξ σαῖς ἅμα περιπόλοις 

Θυίαισιν, al σε μαινόμεναι πάννυχοι χορεύουσι 
τὸν ταμίαν Ἴακχον. 





ANTIGONE. 


where all guests are welcomed, in the sheltered 
plain of Elensinian Ded! O Bacchus, dweller in 
Thebé, mother-city of Bacchants, by the softly-glid- 
ing stream of Ismenus, on the soil where the fierce 
dragon’s teeth were sown ! 

Thou hast been seen where torch flames glare 
through smoke, above the crests of the twin peaks, 
where move the Corycian nymphs, thy votaries, 
hard by Castalia’s stream. 

Thou comest from the ivy-maftled slopes of 


Nysa’s hills, and from the shore green with many- 
clustered vines, while thy name is lifted up on- 


strains of more than mortal power, as thou visitest 
the ways of Thebé: 

Thebé, of all cities, thou holdest ἡπὶ § in honor, 
thou, and thy mother whom the lightning smote; 
and now, when all our people is captive to a violent 
plague, come thou with healing feet over the Par- 
nassian height, or over the moaning strait f 

O thou with whom the stars rejoice as they move, 
the stars whose breath is fire; O master of the 
voices of the night ; son begotten of Zeus; appear, 
O king, with thine attendant Thyiads, who in night- 
long frenzy dance before thee, the giver of good 
gifts, Iacchus ! 


ΙΟΙ 








ANTITONH. 


ΝΊΚΤΗ Scene. Messencer. Artrerwarps Evrypic® AND 
' ATTENDANTS. 


"E£odos. 


ΑΓΓΈΛΟΣ. 


1185 Κάδμου πάροικοι καὶ δόμων ᾿Αμφίονος, 

οὐκ ἔσθ᾽ ὁποῖον στάντ᾽ ἂν ἀνθρώπου βίον 
¥ 9 > 9 3 ¥ , , 

οὔτ᾽ αἰνέσαιμ᾽ ἂν οὔτε μεμψαίμην ποτέ. 

τύχη γὰρ ὀρθοῖ καὶ τύχη καταρρέπει 

τὸν εὐτυχοῦντα τὸν τε δυστυχοῦντ᾽ ἀεί, 

1100 καὶ μάντις οὐδεὶς τῶν καθεστώτων βροτοῖς. 
Κρέων γὰρ ἦν ζηλωτός, ὡς ἐμοί, ποτέ, 
σώσας μὲν ἐχθρῶν τήνδε Καδμείαν χθόνα 
λαβών τε χώρας παντελῆ μοναρχίαν 

ἊΨ 4 > aA 4 a 
εὔθυνε, θάλλων εὐγενεῖ τέκνων σπορᾷ" 

1106 καὶ νῦν ἀφεῖται πάντα. τὰς γὰρ ἡδονὰς 
ΓῚ a ΕΣ Φ id > 9 4 
ὅταν προδῶσιν ἄνδρες, οὐ τίθημ᾽ ἐγὼ 

A A 9 >: ¥ ε aA 4 
ζῆν τοῦτον, ἀλλ᾽ ἔμψυχον ἡγοῦμαι νεκρόν. 
’ 4 Φ > 4 2 
πλούτει τε γὰρ κατ᾽ οἶκον, εἰ βούλει, μέγα, 
καὶ ζῆ τύραννον σχῆμ᾽ ἔχων" ἐὰν δ᾽ ἀπῇ 

1170 TovTwy τὸ χαίρειν, τἄλλ᾽ ἐγὼ καπνοῦ σκιᾶς 

9 ld 9 4 a A ε , 

« οὐκ ἂν πριαίμην ἀνδρὶ πρὸς τὴν ἡδονήν. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
τί δ᾽ αὖ τόδ᾽ ἄχθος βασιλέων ἥκεις φέρων; 


ΑΓΓΈΛΟΣ. 
τεθνᾶσιν" οἱ δὲ ζῶντες αἴτιοι θανεῖν. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 


καὶ τίς φονεύει, τίς δ᾽ ὁ κείμενος ; λέγε. 





ANTIGONE. 


NINTH SCENE. MESSENGER. AFTERWARDS EvurypIcE AND 
ATTENDANTS. 


Enter MESSENGER, on the spectators’ left hand. 


ME. Dwellers by the house of Cadmus and of 
Amphion, there is no estate of mortal life that I 
would ever praise or blame as settled. Fortune 
raises and Fortune humbles the lucky or unlucky 
from day to day, and no one can prophesy to men 
concerning those things which are established. 
For Creon was blest once, as I count bliss; he had 
saved this land of Cadmus from its foes; he was 


clothed with sole dominion in the land; he reigned, . 


the glorious sire of princely children. And now all 
hath been lost. For when a man hath forfeited his 
pleasures, I count him not as living, —I hold him 
but a breathing corpse. Heap up riches in thy 
house, if thou wilt; live in kingly state ; yet, if there 
be no gladness therewith, I would not give the 
shadow of a vapor for all the rest, compared with 
Joy. | 
Cu. And what is this new grief that thou hast 
to tell for our princes ? 

Με. Death; and the living are guilty for the 
dead. 

Cu. And who is the slayer? Who the stricken ? 
Speak. 

Mr. Haemon hath perished; his blood hath 


been shed by no stranger, 
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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


ΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ. 
1175 Αἵμων ὄλωλεν " αὐτόχειρ δ᾽ αἱμάσσεται. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 


’ 4 a bY 9 , 
πότερα πατρῴας ἣ πρὸς οἰκείας χερός ; 


ΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ. 
9. 8 Q e A 8 , 
αὐτὸς πρὸς αὑτοῦ, πατρὶ μηνίσας φόνου. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
4 , ν ε ¥ 99 θὲ Ψ 
ὦ μάντι, τοὔπος ὡς ἄρ᾽ ὀρθὸν ἡνυσας. 
ΑΓΤΈΛΟΣ, , 
ὡς ὧδ᾽ ἐχόντων τἄλλα βουλεύειν πάρα. 
ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
180kal μὴν ὁρῶ τάλαιναν Εὐρυδίκην ὁμοῦ, 
δάμαρτα τὴν Κρέοντος" ἐκ δὲ δωμάτων 
ἤτοι κλύουσα παιδὸς ἣ τύχῃ πάρα. 


ΕΥ̓ΡΥΔΙΚΗ͂. 
ὦ πάντες ἀστοί, τῶν λόγων ἐπῃσθόμην 
πρὸς ἔξοδον στείχουσα, Παλλάδος θεᾶς 
1186 ὅπως ἱκοίμην εὐγμάτων προσήγορος. 
καὶ τυγχάνω τε κλῇθρ᾽ ἀνασπαστοῦ πύλης 
χαλῶσα, καί με φθόγγος οἰκείου κακοῦ 
, >» e , bY 4 
βάλλει δι’ ὥτων " daria δὲ κλίνομαι 
δείσασα πρὸς δμωαῖσι κἀποπλήσσομαι. 
εθοάλλ᾽ ὅστις ἦν ὁ μῦθος αὖθις εἴπατε" 
κακῶν γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος οὖσ᾽ ἀκούσομαι. 
ΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ. 
ἐγώ, φίλη δέσποινα, καὶ παρὼν ἐρῶ, 
ΩΝ , A 9 , Ὁ 
κοὐδὲν παρήσω τῆς ἀληθείας ἔπος. 





ANTIGONE. 


Cu. By his father’s hand, or by his own? 

ME. By his own, in wrath with his sire for the 
murder, 

Cu. O prophet, how true, then, hast thou proved 
thy word ! 

Me. These things stand thus; ye must consider 
of the rest. 

Cu. Lo, I see the hapless Eurydicé, Creon’s 
wife, approaching; she comes from the house by 
chance, haply,— or because she knows the tidings 
of her son. 


Enter EuURYDICE. 


Ev. People of Thebes, I heard your words as I 
was going forth, to salute the goddess Pallas with 
my prayers. Even as I was loosing the fastenings 
of the gate, to open it, the message of a household 
woe smote on mine ear: I sank back, terror- 
stricken, into the arms of my handmaids, and my 
senses fled. But say again what the tidings were; 
I shall hear them as one who is no stranger to 
sorrow. 

Me. Dear lady, I will witness of what I saw, 
and will leave no word of the truth untold. Why, 
indeed, should I soothe thee with words in which I 
must presently be found false? Truth is ever best. 
— I attended thy lord as his guide to the furthest 
part of the plain, where the body of Polyneices, 


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ANTITONH. 


o U4 4 3 4 = 3 4 
τί γάρ σε μαλθάσσοιμ᾽ ἂν ὧν ἐς ὕστερον 
τιθδψεῦσται φανούμεθ᾽; ὀρθὸν ἁλήθει᾽ ἀεί. 
ἐγὼ δὲ σῷ ποϑαγὸς ἑσπόμην πόσει 
πεδίον “ἐπ᾿ ἄκρον, ἔνθ᾽ ἔκειτο νηλεὲς 
κυνοσπάρακτον σῶμα Πολυνείκους ἔτι" 
καὶ τὸν μέν, αἰτήσαντες ἐνοδίαν θεὸν 
1200 Πλούτωνά τ᾽ ὀργὰς εὐμενεῖς κατασχεθεῖν, "" 
λούσαντες ἁγνὸν λουτρόν, ἐν νεοσπάσιν 
θαλλοῖς ὃ δὴ ᾿λέλειπτο συγκατήθομεν, 
Ν ’ 3 4 > , Q 
καὶ τύμβον ὀρθόκρανον οἰκείας χθονὸς 
χώσαντες, αὖσις πρὸς λιθόστρωτον κόρης 
1205 νυμφεῖον Λιδου κοῖλον εἰσεβαίνομεν. 
φωνῆς δ᾽ ἄπωθεν ὀρθίων κωκυμάτων 
4 9 , 3 Α , 
κλύει τις ἀκτέριστον ἀμφὶ παστάδα, 
καὶ δεσπότῃ Κρέοντι σημαίνει μολών " 
τῷ δ᾽ ἀθλίας ἄσημα περιβαίνει βοῆς 
1210 ἕρπον:. μᾶλλον ὦσσον, οἰμώξας δ᾽ ἔπος 
9 id μὰ Uj 9. 9 
ἵησι δυσθρήνητον " ὦ τάλας ἐγώ, 
dp’ εἰμὶ μάντις ; dpa δυστυχεστάτην 
κέλευθον ἕρπω τῶν παρελθουσῶν ὁδῶν; 
παιδός με σαίνει φθόγγος. ἀλλὰ πρόσπολοι, 
» 9 > A ἈΝ ,’ 4 
1215ir’ ἦσσον ὠκεῖς, καὶ παραστάντες τάφῳ 
ἀθρήν"αθ᾽, ἁρμὸν χώματος λιθοσπαδῆ 
δύντες πρὸς αὐτὸ στόμιον, εἰ τὸν Αἵμονος 
φθόγγον συνίημ᾽, ἣ θεοῖσι κλέπτομαι. 
eQ> » 9 ’ ld ’ 
τάδ᾽ ἐξ ἀθύμου δεσπότου κελεύσμασιν 
1220 ἠθροῦμεν " ἐν δὲ λοισθίῳ τυμβεύματι 
τὴν μὲν κρεμαστὴν αὐχένος κατείδομεν, 
, LAN , », 
βρόχῳ μιτώδει σινδόνος καθημμένην, 
τὸν δ᾽ ἀμφὶ μέσσῃ περιπετῆ «τροσκείμενον, 
εὐνῆς ἀποιμώζοντα τῆς κάτω φθορὰν 








ANTIGONE. 


torn by dogs, still lay unpitied. We prayed the 
goddess of the roads, and Pluto, in mercy to re- 
strain their wrath ; we washed the dead with holy 
washing; and with freshly-plucked boughs we 
solemnly burned such relics as there were. We 
raised a high mound of his native earth; and then 
we turned away to enter the maiden’s nuptial cham- 
ber with rocky couch, the caverned mansion of the 
bride of Death. And, from afar off, one of us 
heard a voice of loud wailing at that bride’s unhal- 
iowed bower; and came to tell our master Creon. 

And as the King drew nearer, doubtful sounds 
of a bitter cry floated around him; he groaned, 
and said in accents of anguish, ‘Wretched that I - 
am, can my foreboding be true? Am I going on 
the wofullest way that ever I went? My son’s 
voice greets me.—Go, my servants,—haste ye 
nearer, and when ye have reached the tomb, pass 
through the gap, where the stones have been 
wrenched away, to the cell’s very mouth,—and 
look, and see if ’tis Haemon’s voice that I know, or 
if mine ear is cheated by the gods.’ 

This search, at our despairing master’s word, we 
went to make; and in the furthest part of the tomb 
we descried 4er hanging by the neck, slung by a 
threadwrought halter of fine linen; while 4e was 
embracing her with arms thrown around her waist, 
— bewailing the loss of his bride who is with the 
dead, and his father’s deeds, and his own ill-starred 
love. 


107 





ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


1298 καὶ πατρὸς ἔργα καὶ ὁ δύστηνον λέχος. 
e Qo ε ela 4 > », Ὦ» 
ὁ δ᾽ ὡς ὁρᾷ σφε, στυγνὸν οἰμώξας ἔσω 
χωρεῖ πρὸς αὐτὸν κἀνακωκύσας καλεῖ" 
ὦ τλῆμον, οἷον ἔργον εἴργασαι " τίνα 
A » 9 aA a 4 
vow ἔσχες; ἐν τῷ συμφορᾶς διεφθάρης; 
1280ἔξελθε, τέκνον, ἱκέσιός σε λίσσομαι. 
τὸν δ᾽ ἀγρίοις ὄσσοισι παπτήνας ὃ παῖς, 
Ud a ϑ9ῶν 9 ’ , 
πτύσας προσώπῳ κοὐδὲν ἀντειπών, ξίφους 
[ A 4 > 2 ¢ , 
ἕλκει διπλοῦς κνώδοντας " ἐκ δ᾽ ὁρμωμένον 


πατρὸς φυγαῖσιν quran’ εἶθ᾽ ὁ δύσμορος 
1235aiTt@ χολωθείς, ὥσπερ εἶχ᾽, ἐπενταθεὶς 


» a ’ὕ » > 5:8 Q 

ἤρεισε πλευραῖς μέσσον ἔγχος ἐς δ᾽ ὑγρὸν 

ἀγκῶν᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἔμφρων παρθένῳ προσπτύσσεται " 

καὶ φυσιῶν ὀξεῖαν ἐ βάλλει ῥοὴν 

λευκῇ παρειᾷ φοινίον σταλάγματος. 
1240κεῖται δὲ νεκρὸς περὶ νεκρῷ, τὰ νυμφικὰ 

τέλη λαχὼν δείλαιος ἔν γ᾽ ΓΔιδου δόμοις, 

, 3 9 ’ \ 9 , 
δείξας ἐν ἀνθρώποισι τὴν ἀβουλίαν, 
ὅσῳ μέγιστον ἀνδρὶ πρόσκειται κακόν. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 


a ADA 3 ’ ε A 4 
τί τοῦτ᾽ ἂν εἰκάσειας ; ἡ γυνὴ πάλιν 
1245 φρούδη, πρὶν εἰπεῖν ἐσθλὸν ἢ κακὸν λόγον. 


ΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ. 


καὐτὸς τεθάμβηκ᾽- ἐλπίσιν δὲ βόσκομαι 
ἄχη τέκνου κλύουσαν ἐς πόλιν γόους 
9 9 ’ 9 > e κ᾿ », » 
οὐκ ἀξιώσειν, ἀλλ᾽ ὑπὸ στέγης ἔσω 
δμωαῖς προθήσειν πένθος οἰκεῖον στένειν " 
4 bY > ¥ 9 ε ,’ 
1250[yvodpns γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος, ὥσθ᾽ ἁμαρτάνειν. 





ANTIGONE. 


But his father, when he saw him, cried aloud 
with a dread cry, and went in, and called to him 
with a voice of wailing :—‘ Unhappy, what a deed 
hast thou done! What thought hath come to thee? 
What manner of mischance hath marred thy 
reason? Come forth, my child! I pray thee! I 
implore!’ But the boy glared at him with fierce 
eyes, spat in his face, and, without a word of answer, 
drew his cross-hilted sword : —as his father rushed 
forth in flight, he missed his aim ;— then, hapless 
one, wroth with himself, he straightway leaned 
with all his weight against his sword, and drove it, 
half its length, into his side; and, while sense lin- 
gered, he clasped the maiden to his faint embrace, 


and, as he gasped, sent forth on her pale cheek the 
swift stream of the oozing blood. | 

Corpse enfolding corpse he lies ; he hath won his 
nuptial rites, poor youth, not here, yet in the halls 
of Death; and he hath witnessed to mankind that, 
of all curses which cleave to man, ill counsel is the 


sovereign curse. 


EuRYDICE retires into the house. 


Cu. What wouldst thou augur from this? The 
lady hath turned back, and is gone, without a word 
good or evil. 

Me. I, too, am startled; yet I nourish the hope 
that, at these sore tidings of her son, she cannot 
deign to give her sorrow public vent, but in the 


privacy of the house will set her handmaids to 
109 


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ANTITONH. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
οὐκ οἶδ᾽. ἐμοὶ δ᾽ οὖν 4 7 ἄγαν σιγὴ βαρὺ 
δοκεῖ προσεῖναι χὴ μάτην πολλὴ βοή. 


ΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ. 


ἀλλ᾽ εἰσόμεσθα, μή τι καὶ κατάσχετον 
κρυφῇ καλύπτει καρδίᾳ θυμουμένῃ, 

1255 dduous παραστείχοντες. εὖ γὰρ οὖν λέγεις" 
καὶ τῆς ἄγαν γάρ ἐστί πον σιγῆς βάρος. 


ΤΈΝΤΗ SCENE. CREON AND MESSENGER. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
καὶ μὴν ὅδ᾽ dvat αὐτὸς ἐφήκει 
μνῆμ᾽ ἐπίσημον διὰ χειρὸς ἔχων, 

> , > La) 9 3 ,’ 
εἰ θέμις εἰπεῖν, οὐκ ἀλλοτρίαν 
2 > > 2 8 e 4 
ἄτην, ἀλλ᾽ αὐτὸς ἁμαρτών. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
oe Στροφὴ a. 
lw, 
φρενῶν δυσφρόνων ἁμαρτήματα 
στερεὰ θανατόεντ᾽. 
ὦ κτανόντας τε καὶ 
θανόντας βλέποντες ἐμφυλίους. 
1265 ὦμοι ἐμῶν ἄνολβα βουλευμάτων. 
ἰὼ παῖ, νέος νέῳ ξὺν μόρῳ, 
ee 
αἰαῖ αἰαῖ, 
ἔθανες, ἀπελύθης, 
ἐμαῖς οὐδὲ σαῖσι δυσβουλίαις. 





ANTIGONE. 


mourn the household grief. For she is not un-¢ 
taught of discretion, that she should err. . 

Cu. I know not; but to me, at lesist, a strained 
silence seems to portend peril, no less than vain 
abundance of lament. 

Με. Well, I will enter the house, and learn 
whether indeed she is not hiding some repressed 
purpose in the depths of a passionate heart. Yea, a 
thou sayest well: excess of silence, too, may have i | 

| 
| 
| 





a perilous meaning. 
Exit MESSENGER. _ 


TENTH SCENE. CREON AND MESSENGER. i 


Enter CREON on the spectators’ left, with attendants, carrying 


the shrouded body 0f HAEMON on a bier. 


Cu. Lo, yonder the King himself draws near, 
bearing that which tells too clear a tale,—the 


— but of his own misdeeds. 


| 

| 

| 
| 
work of no stranger’s madness, — if we may say it, 
Cr. Woe for the sins of a darkened soul, stub- | 
| 


| 

born sins, fraught with death! Ah, ye behold us, " 

the sire who hath slain, the son who hath perished ! | 

Woe is me, for the wretched blindness of my coun- ' 
, 

















ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
τφτοοῖμ᾽ ὡς ἔοικας ὀψὲ τὴν δίκην ἰδεῖν. 
ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
ὲ Στροφὴ β΄. 
οἴμοι, 
ἔχω μαθὼν δείλαιος: ἐν δ᾽ ἐμῷ κάρᾳ 
θεὸς τότ᾽ ἄρα τότε μέγα βάρος (μ᾽ ἔχων) 
ἔπαισεν, ἐν δ᾽ ἔσεισεν ἀγρίαις ὁδοῖς, 
121δοἴμοι, λακπάτητον ἀντρέπων χαράν. 
A A “4 ld A 4 
φεῦ φεῦ, ὦ πόνοι βροτῶν δύσπονοι. 


ἘΞΑΓΓΈΛΟΣ. 


4Φ , ε » \ , 
ὦ. δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος, 
᾿ ν Ν A 4 , \ > 9 4 
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις 
¥ 9 N ,»9ΦὩ»Ἦ»Ῥ ,’ 
1280€ouKas ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 


τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον, 7) κακῶν ἔτι; 


ΕΞΑΓΓΈΛΟΣ. 

Q id A l4 A 
γυνὴ τέθνηκε τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ, 
δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμυισι πλήγμασιν. 


ΚΡΈΩΝ. 
"Αντιστροφὴ ά. 
ἰώ, 
ἰὼ δυσκάθαρτος “Avdov λιμήν, 
128δτί μ᾽ ἄρα τί μ᾽ ὀλέκεις ; 
ὦ κακάγγελτά μοι 
,’ ἂν A , 
προπέμψας ἄχη, Twa θροεῖς λόγον; 
> A Ὁ 43 7 > 9 4 
αἰαῖ, ὀλωλότ᾽ ἄνδρ᾽ ἐπεξειργάσω. 








ANTIGONE, 


sels! Alas, my son, thou hast died in thy youth, 
by a timeless doom, woe is me!—thy spirit hath 
fled, — not by thy folly, but_by mine own! 


Cu. Ah me, how all too late thou seemest to see af | | 


the right ! 

Cr. Ah me, I have learned the bitter lesson! 
But then, methinks, oh then, some god smote me 
from above with crushing weight, and hurled me 
_ into ways of cruelty, woe is me,— overthrowing 
and trampling on my joy! Woe, woe, for the 
troublous toils of men! 


Enter MESSENGER /from the house. 


Me. Sire, thou hast come, methinks, as one 
whose hands are not empty, but who hath store laid 
up besides ; thou bearest yonder burden with thee ; 
and thou.art soon to look upon the woes within thy 
house. 

Cr. And what worse ill is yet to follow upon 
ills ? | 

Mr. Thy queen hath died, true mother of yon 
‘corpse — ah, hapless lady !— by blows newly dealt. 

Cr. Oh Hades, all-receiving, whom no sacrifice 


can appease! Hast thou, then, no mercy for me? 
113 








4 


















ANTITONH. 


τί φής, ὦ παῖ, τίνα λέγεις μοι νέον, 
1290aiat αἰαῖ, 
σφάγιον ἐπ᾽ ὀλέθρῳ 


γυναικεῖον ἀμφικεῖσθαι μόρον; 


ἘΞΑΓΓΈΛΟΣ. 


ea ’ > \ > La) » 
ραν πάρεστιν" ov yap ἐν μυχοῖς ert. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 


Ἶ ᾿Αντιστροφὶ β΄. 
οἴμοι, 

1296 κακὸν τόδ᾽ ἄλλο δεύτερον βλέπω τάλας. 
τίς ἄρα, τίς με πότμος ἔτι περιμένει; 
ἔχω μὲν ἐν χείρεσσιν ἀρτίως τέκνον, 

4 Q > »¥ 4 , 
τάλας, τὸν δ᾽ ἔναντα προσβλέπω νεκρόν. 

1800 φεῦ φεῦ μᾶτερ ἀθλίᾳ, φεῦ τέκνον. 


EEAITEAOZ. 
ἡ δ᾽ ὀξυθήκτῳ Bopia περὶ ξίφει 


λύει κελαινὰ βλέφαρα, κωκύσασα μὲν 





τοῦ πρὶν θανόντος Μεγαρέως κλεινὸν λάχος, 


αὖθις δὲ τοῦδε, λοίσθιον δὲ σοὶ κακὰς 
1308 πράξεις ἐφυμνήσασα τῷ παιδοκτόνῳ. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
κι; Στροφὴ γ΄. 
αἰαῖ αἰαῖ, 
ἀνέπταν φόβῳ. τί μ᾽ οὐκ ἀνταίαν 
ἔπαισέν τις ἀμφιθήκτῳ ξίφει; 
1810 δείλαιος ἐγὼ αἰαῖ, 
δειλαίᾳ δὲ συγκέκραμαι δύᾳ. 


»  ANTIGONE. 


chariots are many, let us enjoy forgetfulness after 
the late wars, and visit all the temples of the gods 
with night-long dance and song; and may Bacchus 
be our leader, whose dancing shakes the land of 
Thebé. : 

But lo, the king of the land comes yonder, 
Creon, son of Monoeceus, our new ruler by the 
new fortunes that the gods have given; what coun- 
sel is he pondering, that he hath proposed this 
special conference of elders, summoned by his 
general mandate ? 

Enter CREON, from the central doors of the palace, in the garb of 


king; with two attendants. ᾿ 


Cr. Sirs, the vessel of our State, after being 
tossed on wild waves, hath once more been safely 
steadied by the gods; and ye, out of all the folk, 
have been called apart by my summons, because I 
knew, first of all, how true and constant was your 
reverence for the royal power of Laius ; how, again, 
when Oedipus was ruler of our land, and when he 
had perished, your steadfast loyalty still upheld 
their children. Since, then, his sons have fallen 
in one day by a twofold doom,—each smitten by 
the other, each stained with a brother’s blood, — 
I now possess the throne and all its powers, by 
nearness of kinship to the dead. 

No man can be fully known, in soul and spirit 


and mind, until he hath been seen versed in rule 
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ANTITONH. 


9 A ΝΥ Q a 
ἀρχαῖς .ε καὶ νόμοισιν ἐντριβὴς φανῇ. 
ἐμοὶ γὰρ ὅστις πᾶσαν εὐθύνων πόλιν 
μὴ τῶν ἀρίστων ἅπτεται βουλευμάτων, 
180 ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ φόβου τον γλῶσσαν ἐγκλήσας ἔχει, 
κάκιστος εἶναι νῦν τε καὶ πάλαι δοκεῖ. 
καὶ μεῖζον ὅστις ἀντὶ τῆς αὑτοῦ πάτρας 
φίλον νομίζει, τοῦτον οὐδαμοῦ λέγω. 
ἐγὼ γάρ, ἴστω Ζεὺς ὁ πάνθ᾽ ὁρῶν ἀεί, 
185 οὔτ᾽ ἂν σιωπήσαιμι τὴν ἄτην ὁρῶν 
στείχουσαν ἀστοῖς ἀντὶ τῆς σωτηρίας, 
οὔτ᾽ ἂν φίλον ποτ᾽ ἄνδρα δυσμενῆ χθονὸς 
θείμην ἐμαυτῷ, τοῦτο γιγνώσκων ὅτι 
νῷ 9 Α ε ’ Q 4 
Ho ἐστὶν ἡ σῴζουσα, καὶ ταύτης ἔπι 
190 πλέοντες ὀρθῆς τοὺς φίλους ποιούμεθα. 
"τοιοῖσδ᾽ ἐγὼ νόμοισι τήνδ᾽ αὔξω πόλιν. 
καὶ νῦν ἀδελφὰ τῶνδε κηρύξας ἔχω 
Φ A . A 9 9 2Q 27 4 
ἀστοῖσι παίδων τῶν ἀπ᾽ Οἰδίπου πέρι" 
> A v4 , ε A 
Ἐτεοκλέα μέν, ὃς πόλεως ὑπερμαχῶν 
195 ὄλωλε τῆσδε, πάντ᾽ ἀριστεύσας δορί, 
ld U4 QA Q 4 9 9 vd 
τάφῳ τε κρύψαι καὶ τὰ πάντ᾽ ἐφαγνίσαι 
ἃ τοῖς ἀρίστοις ἔρχεται κάτω νεκροῖς" 
τὸν δ᾽ αὖ ξύναιμον τοῦδε, Πολυνείκην λέγω, 
ὃς γῆν πατρῴαν καὶ θεοὺς τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς 
200 φυγὰς κατελθὼν ἠθέλησε μὲν πυρὶ 
πρῆσαι κατάκρας, ἠθέλησε δ᾽ αἵματος 
κοινοῦ πάσασθαι, τοὺς δὲ δουλώσας ἄγειν 
A ’ A 9 ’ , 
τοῦτον πόλει THO ἐκκεκήρυκται τάφῳ 
μήτε κτερίζειν μήτε κωκῦσαί τινα, 
aA » a a > a“ 
ἐᾶν δ᾽ ἄθαπτον καὶ πρὸς οἰωνῶν δέμας 
Α 4 A 9 9 id 9Φ 9 ἴω 
καὶ πρὸς κυνῶν ἐδεστὸν αἰκισθέν τ᾽ ἰδεῖν. 
τοιόνδ᾽ ἐμὸν φρόνημα, κοὔποτ᾽ ἔκ γ᾽ ἐμοῦ 





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ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES. 


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ANTITONH. 


Τὰ τοῦ δράματος πρόσωπα. 


᾿Αντιγόνη. Φύλαξ ἄγγελος. 

Ἰσμήνη. “Ἄγγελος. 

Χορὸς Θηβαίων γερόντων. Εὐρυδίκη. 

Κρέων. Morzs : 

Αἵμων. Two Servants of Creon. 

Τειρεσίας. An Attendant οὗ Tiresias. 
Two Maids of Eurydice. 


Fimst Sozenz. ANTIGONE AND IsMENE. 


Πρόλογος. 
ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ. 
"0 κοινὸν αὐτάδελφον Ἰσμήνης κάρα, 
dp’ οἶσθ᾽ ὅτι Ζεὺς τῶν ἀπ᾽ Οἰδίπου κακῶν 
ε A 2 8 A ’ A 
ὁποῖον οὐχὶ νῷν ἔτι ζώσαιν τελεῖ ; 
οὐδὲν γὰρ οὔτ᾽ ἀλγεινὸν οὔτ᾽ ἀτήσιμον 
¥ 9 9 XN ¥> » e a 9 
δ ovr αἰσχρὸν ovr’ ἄτιμον ἔσθ᾽, ὁποῖον οὐ 
τῶν σῶν τε κἀμῶν οὐκ ὅπωπ᾽ ἐγὼ κακῶν. 
καὶ νῦν τί τοῦτ᾽ αὖ φασι πανδήμῳ πόλει 
κήρυγμα θεῖναι τὸν στρατηγὸν ἀρτίως ; 
ἔχεις τι κεϊσήκουσας ; ἥ σε λανθάνει 
Q Q 0 A > A a 
10 πρὸς τοὺς φίλους στείχοντα τῶν ἐχθρῶν κακά ; 


ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 
ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐδεὶς μῦθος, ᾿Αντιγόνη, φίλων 
ov? ἡδὺς οὔτ᾽ ἀλγεινὸς ἵκετ᾽, ἐξ ὅτου 





ANTIGONE. 


PERSONS REPRESENTED. 


ANTIGONE, ) Sisters of HAEMON, son of Creon. 
ISMENE, } Polyneices. ΤΕΙΚΕΒΙΑΒ, a blind seer. 
Cuorus of Theban old men. MESSENGER. 

CrEON, King of Thebes. EuryDIcE, wife of Creon.: 


Guarp of body of Polyneices. | MESSENGER from within Palace. 
Mutes; Boy, attendant on TEIRESIAS; two attendants on Creon 
and EuvryDICE each. 


SCENE. — Before the Royal Palace in Boeotian Thebes. 


First SCENE. ANTIGONE AND ISMENE. 
ANTIGONE. 

Ismene, my sister, mine own dear sister, knowest 
thou what ill there is, of all bequeathed by Oedipus, 
that Zeus fulfils not for us twain while we live? 
Nothing painful is there, nothing fraught with ruin, 
no shame, no Glahener; that I have not seen in 


ee 


thy woes and mine.. 


And. now what new “edict is this of which they 


tell, that our Captain-hath just published to all 
Thebes? Knowest thou aught? Hast thou heard? 
Or is it hidden from thee that our friends are threat- 


: ened with the doom of our foes? 


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δυοῖν ἀδελφοῖν ἐστερήθημεν δύο, 
μιᾷ θανόντων ἡμέρᾳ διπλῇ χερί" 

16 ἐπεὶ δὲ φροῦδός ἐστιν ᾿Αργείων στρατὸς 
ἐν νυκτὶ τῇ νῦν, οὐδὲν old ὑπέρτερον, 
οὔτ᾽ εὐτυχοῦσα μᾶλλον οὔτ᾽ ἀτωμένη. 


ΑΝΤΙΓΌΝΗ. 
ἤδη καλῶς, καί σ᾽ ἐκτὸς αὐλείων πυλῶν 
vO 9 > 397 e , 4 
τοῦδ᾽ οὕνεκ᾽ ἐξέπεμπον, ὡς μόνη κλύοις. 
ἸΣΜΉΝΗ. 
20 τί δ᾽ ἔστι; δηλοῖς γάρ τι καλχαίνουσ᾽ ἕπος. 
ANTIFONH. 
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ov yap τάφου νῷν τὼ κασιγνήτω Κρέων 
τὸν μὲν προτίσας, τὸν δ᾽ ἀτιμάσας ἔχει; 
᾿Ετεοκλέα μέν, ὡς λέγουσι, σὺν δίκῃ 
χρησθεὶς δικαίᾳ καὶ νόμῳ, κατὰ χθονὸς 
» A » »ἭἬἜἉ “A 
25 ἔκρυψε τοῖς ἔνερθεν ἔντιμον νεκροῖς " 
τὸν δ᾽ ἀθλίως θανόντα Πολυνείκους νέκυν 
ἀστοῖσί φασιν ἐκκεκηρῦχθαι τὸ μὴ 
τάφῳ καλύψαι -ηδὲ κωκῦσαί τινα, 
ἐᾶν δ᾽ ἄταφον, ἄκλαντον, οἰωνοῖς γλυκὺν 
80 θησαυρὸν εἰσορῶσι πρὸς χάριν βορᾶς. 
ΠΝ) 5 9 ᾿ , δ 
τοιαῦτά φασι τὸν ἀγαθὸν Κρέοντα σοὶ 
9 ’ id a 9 , C4 3 ν 
κἀμοί ---- λέγω γὰρ κἀμέ ---- κηρύξαντ᾽ ἔχειν, 
SN A a A “Ὁ \ 20 7 
καὶ δεῦρο νεῖσθαι ταῦτα τοῖσι μὴ εἰδόσιν 
σαφῆ προκηρύξοντα, καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμ᾽ ἄγειν 
85 οὐχ ὡς παρ᾽ οὐδέν, ἀλλ᾽ ὃ; ἂν τούτων τι δρᾷ 
φόνον προκεῖσθαι ,“δημόλευστον ἐν πόλει. 
οὕτως ἔχει σοι ταῦτα, καὶ δείξεις τάχα 
εἴτ᾽ εὐγενὴς πέφυκας εἴτ᾽ ἐσθλῶν κακή. 





ANTIGONE. 


O thou herald of evil, bitter tidings, what word 
dost thou utter? Alas, I was already as dead, and 
thou hast smitten me anew! What sayest thou, 
my son? What is this new message that thou 
bringest — woe, woe is me! —of a wife’s doom, — 
of slaughter heaped on slaughter ? 

Cu. Thou canst behold: ’tis no longer hidden 
within, 
The doors of the palace are opened, and the corpse of EvuRypIck 


ts disclosed, 


Cr. Ah me, — yonder I behold a new, a second 5 


woe! W1.at destiny, ah what, can yet await me? 


I have but now raised my son in my arms, — and 


there, again, I see a corpse before me! Alas, alas, 


unhappy mother! Alas, my child! 

ΜΕ. There, at the altar, seif-stabbed with a keen 
knife, she suffered her darkening eyes to close, 
when she had wailed for the noble fate of Megareus 
who died before, and then for his fate who lies 
there,—and when, with her last breath, she had 


invoked evil fortunes upon thee, the slayer of thy 


creamer 


Cr. .Woe, woe! I thrill with dread. Is there 


none to strike me to the heart with two-edged 
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SOPOKAEOYS 


ΞΣΞΑΓΓΈΛΟΣ. 


SRE neg Res Soe 


oes 


ὡς αἰτίαν γε τῶνδε κἀκείνων ἔχων 
Q A , A > 9 4 , 
™ KyuT ἢ 
προς ς θανούσης THT ὃ επεσκήπτου μόρων 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 


ποίῳ δὲ κἀπελύσατ᾽ ἐν φοναῖς τρόπῳ; 


ἘΞΑΓΓΈΛΟΣ. 
1ϑ:δπαίσασ᾽ ὑφ᾽ ἧπαρ αὐτόχειρ αὑτήν, ὅπως 
παιδὸς τόδ᾽ ἤσθετ᾽ ὀξυκώκυτον πάθος. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
Στροφὴ δ΄. 
ὦμοι μοι, τάδ᾽ οὐκ ἐπ᾿ ἄλλον βροτῶν 

1320éuas ἁρμόσει ποτ᾽ ἐξ αἰτίας. 

9." ’ > 9 A »¥ > , 

ἐγὼ yap σ᾽ ἐγὼ ἔκανον, ὦ μέλεος, 

> AN 4,3 A ’ 

ἐγὼ, Pap. ἔτυμον, ἰὼ πρόσπολοι, 

ἃ ,’ 39 6 ὦ id 9.9 4 
1896 ἄγετέ μ᾽ OTL τάχος, ἄγετέ μ ἐκποδών 

Ν 9 ἮΝ A a , 

τὸν οὐκ ὄντα μᾶλλον ἢ μηδένα. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 


9’ A ν , a 
κέρδη παραινεῖς, εἴ τι κέρδος ἐν κακοῖς" 
βράχιστα γὰρ κράτιστα τἀν ποσὶν κακά. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
+ ᾿Αντιστροφὴ γ᾽. 
ἴτω ἴτω, 
1330 φανήτω μόρων ὁ κάλλιστ᾽ ἐμῶν 
ἐμοὶ τερμίαν ἄγων ἁμέραν 
ὕπατος" ἴτω ἴτω, 
ὅπως μηκέτ᾽ ἦμαρ GAN εἰσίδω. 





ANTIGONE. 


sword?—-O miserable that I am, and steeped in 
miserable anguish |! : 

Me. Yea, both his son’s doom, and that other’s, 
were laid to thy chirge by her whose corpse thou 
seest. 

Cr. And what was the manner of the violent 
deed by which she passed away? 

Me. Her own hand struck her to the heart, 
when she had learned her son’s sorely lamented 
fate. 

Cr. Ah me, this guilt can never be fixed on any 


other of mortal kind, for my acquittal! I,even I, - 


was thy slayer, wretched that I am—I own the 
truth. Lead me away, O my servants, lead me 
hence with all speed, whose life is but as death ! 

Cu. Thy counsels are good, if there can be 
good with ills; briefest is best, when trouble is in 
our path. 

Cr. Oh, let it come, let it appear, that fairest of 
fates for me, that brings my last day,—aye, best 
fate of all! Oh, let it come, that I may never look 
upon to-morrow’s light ! 

Cu. These things are in the future; present 
tasks claim our care: the ordering ot the future 


rests where it should rest. 
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ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
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μέλλοντα ταῦτα. τῶν προκειμένων τι χρὴ 
138δ πράσσειν. μέλει γὰρ τῶνδ᾽ ὅτοισι χρὴ μέλειν. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 


ἀλλ᾽ ὧν ἐρῶ μὲν ταῦτα συγκατηνξάμην. 


ΧΟΡΟΣ. 
μὴ νῦν προσεύχου μηδέν: ὡς πεπρωμένης 
οὐκ ἔστι θνητοῖς συμφορᾶς ἀπαλλαγή. 


ΚΡΕΩ͂Ν. 
᾿Αντιστροφὺὴ δ΄. 
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Ιϑάδλέχρια τἀν χεροῖν" τάδ᾽ ἐπὶ κρατί μοι 
πότμος δυσκόμιστος εἰσήλατο. 


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πρῶτον ὑπάρχει" χρὴ δὲ τά γ᾽ εἰς θεοὺς 


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ANTIGONE. 


Cr. All my desires, at least, were summed in 
that prayer. 

Cu. Pray thou no more; for mortals have nol 
escape from destined woe. 

Cr. Lead me away, I pray you; a rash, foolish 
man; who have slain thee, ah my son, unwittingly, 
and thee, too, my wife—unhappy that I am! 1 
know not which way I should bend my gaze, or 
where I should seek support; for all is amiss with 
that which is in my hands,—and yonder, again, a 
crushing fate hath leapt upon my head. 


As CREON ἐς being conducted into the house, the Coryphaeus speaks 


the closing verses. 


Cu. Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness ; 
and reverence towards the gods must be inviolate. 
Great words of prideful men are ever punished with 


great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to | 
be wise. 
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